The largest Spruce Pine mine is owned by Sibelco, a private Belgium mineral company that is Mitchell County’s top employer. Sibelco told The News & Observer Monday that the company has ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 33 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

How frustrating to be a Chinook salmon. You exit the Pacific Ocean into the Columbia River, then migrate up the Snake River to the Salmon River, where hundreds of miles from the ocean in central ...

The world’s 50 biggest miners are now worth $1.5 trillion, up $76 billion during Q3 as gold miners climb the rankings and Chinese mining stocks get a late boost. At the end of the third quarter ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Bitcoin mining software lets you use computer hardware to help administer the blockchain technology that runs bitcoin (BTC).

Authorities rescued 12 people who were trapped for several hours underground Thursday after an elevator malfunctioned at a former gold mine that is now a Colorado tourist attraction. At around ...

Some believe we may have already reached that point. Gold mine production totalled 3,531 tonnes in 2019, 1% lower than in 2018, according to the World Gold Council. This is the first annual ...

Bitcoin mining involves solving complex mathematical puzzles, validating transactions and securing the network. Miners compete to find the correct hash, adding new blocks to the blockchain and ...

An explosion caused by a methane leak at a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 51 people and injured 20, according to Iranian state media broadcasts Sunday. Images from the scene showed ...

JAKARTA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - At least 15 people died in the collapse of an illegal gold mine in Indonesia's province of West Sumatra, following a landslide caused by heavy rains, an official said ...

Mining is the process of adding and validating transaction records on the Bitcoin public blockchain ledger while securing uptime for the network. This is how the network persists without relying ...