In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their prone ...

In the next decade, the mining industry may lose more than half of its jobs to automation, according to a new report. That’s not based on future technologies, but on automated equipment being deployed ...

Cory Rockwell is an underground miner at copper mine Nevada Copper in the town of Yerington. He works 12 hour shifts for seven days every other week under tough conditions and makes six-figures. Here ...

WASHINGTON — While a debate rages about the future of copper-nickel mining in Minnesota, the state’s iron ore industry and employment from mining has been fairly steady — even in the pandemic years.

The mining industry continues to play a critical role in the Central West economy, with new figures showing the sector delivered more than $1 billion in direct spending across the region in the past ...

As the mining industry continues to grow and evolve, companies are working with Tucson-area schools to fill what have been historically hard-to-fill positions. “We’re at a pinch point. It is more ...

Nearly 1 million coal jobs may be lost by 2050 in the wake of the coal industry’s expected closures, a new report found. That number excludes additional climate pledges to phase out coal. An estimated ...

As a major proponent of global warming, Donald Trump apparently thinks it benefits him to be perceived as a savior of jobs in the coal industry. This is likely not because he can do much to protect ...

Mansur Arief never imagined himself working in mining. As an artificial intelligence researcher finishing a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, he developed safety algorithms for self-driving cars. But ...