Coal mining operations take up a lot of space. Even if they are taken out of commission, they still lie there, dormant. Peabody is looking to change that. The coal giant is repurposing parts of its ...

Eramet -- which is 27 percent owned by France -- began mining in 2014 under the previous government after being awarded the concession 10 years earlier. The Senegalese state holds 10 percent of its ...

At the start of their shift, the coal miners working on Enlow Fork Mine’s H-3 longwall section step into a black steel elevator and descend 800 feet underground, where they walk out through a heavy ...

Like something from the science fiction film "Dune", the "world's biggest mining dredger" has been swallowing acre after acre of the fertile coastal strip where most of Senegal's vegetables are grown.

Hungry for zircon: The world's biggest mining dredger rig is so big it moves by being floated on its own lake - Copyright AFP PATRICK MEINHARDT Hungry for zircon: The ...