Why Utah's mining boom could have geopolitical consequences.

The copper operation at the Kennecott mine in Utah is now supported by a new 25-MW solar project. Rio Tinto also installed a ...

Canada-based Anfield Energy can begin construction on mine in San Juan County, Utah Utah has given the go-ahead for a uranium mine located about 20 miles northeast of Monticello. Anfield Energy, a ...

Environmentalists filed a lawsuit on Monday to prevent the construction of a new potash mine that they say would devastate a lake ecosystem in the drought-stricken western Utah desert. The complaint ...

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Note to readers • This story was originally published by High Country News. In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find enough ...

Thousands of artifacts, including a more than 150-year-old bottle of alcohol, were recently discovered during an excavation ...

In late September, an underground coal mine just outside the town of East Carbon in rural Utah caught fire. More than two months later, it’s still burning. Now, the once-bustling mine called Lila ...

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Prohibition was in full force in February 1923 when Deputy Sheriff R.T. Edwards arrested three bootleggers in Sego, Utah, closed their drinking parlors and confiscated 75 gallons of booze. That must ...