Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse has little patience left for mines that aren’t getting built. After 40 years in Alaska’s mining ...

Having arrived in Alaska as a VISTA volunteer more than ... where the ore could be extracted by open-pit mining, and an eastern district, where the ore is deeper and would require an underground ...

Plans for a massive open-pit mine threaten wild salmon and bears at two of Alaska's wildest national parks. Lake Clark and Katmai National Parks and Preserves in Alaska are a part of one of the ...

The Rochester segment operates an open pit heap leach silver-gold mine in northwestern Nevada. The Kensington segment relates to an underground gold mine located north of Juneau, Alaska.

and the first mining in Bingham Canyon was underground, although the vast majority of ore has come from more than a century of digging what was once the world’s largest open-pit mine.