This story was produced in collaboration with High Country News, The Center for Public Integrity and the Ohio Valley ReSource. For the last two decades, one of the West’s smallest coal mines has sat ...

Showcasing the mining industry’s latest developments and bringing its most pressing issues to the fore, Resourcing Tomorrow ...

In June 2019, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Blue Green Alliance (BGA) brought together a group of engaged stakeholders from the mining, labor, environmental, and ...

In spring 1949, three prospectors armed with Geiger counters set out to hunt for treasure in the arid mountains of southern Nevada and southeastern California. In the previous century, those mountains ...

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“Fruit of the poisonous tree” is a legal metaphor used to describe evidence obtained illegally. The logic is that if the source, the “tree,” of the evidence is tainted, then anything gained from the ...

Often, the stories we tell ourselves have the greatest impact on the decisions we make. For example, the story we hear about mining is often inherently bad. This can lead to mining projects being ...