This tech-savvy generation has strong ideas about the places and cultures in which it wants to work. One of the recurring opinions heard from Gen Zers is the longing to get out from behind the desk, ...

Struggling coal-mining communities would have access to an additional $1 billion in federal funds to rebuild their economies by restoring abandoned mine lands under the president’s budget proposal ...

A new copper mine that could be an economic boost to the western Upper Peninsula has garnered both support and resistance. Highland Copper Company plans to develop a $425 million copper mine in ...

In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, regional mines still provide jobs. The Department of Environmental ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming coal mine that supplies fuel to a power plant that will be converted to burn gas plans to lay off 19 workers next month, the latest of thousands of jobs lost in the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - All over North and South America, miners are losing their jobs as the recession hits demand for metals that enjoyed a boom in recent years. In Chile, where copper mining is a ...

GRAND JUNCTION — Miners, roughnecks and mill workers on the Western Slope are facing a tough accumulation of downturns in the coming year that will ripple out to government coffers, schools and small ...

Friday’s announcement by two major global mining companies that they plan to slash tens of thousands of jobs points to the gathering crisis in the world economy. It came amid stagnation in the ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has heralded the commencement of production at the Ivanplats Platreef Mine as “an important moment ...