A U.S. District judge will hear arguments May 7 in a case over whether the federal government can complete a land swap for a ...

Trump put the Oak Flat mine project on a priority list of mines a day after announcing the feds would try to speed up a land swap needed for the mine.

The Trump administration plans to move ahead with a land swap that would enable work to start on a huge copper mine at Oak Flat in Arizona.

The massive First Quantum Minerals mine, which entered production in 2019 is an increasingly rare phenomenon in copper mining. The mine’s global porphyry peers in terms of output have histories ...

The U.S. Forest Service on Thursday provided notice that it will publish a final environmental review and draft decision on a transfer of land that would clear the way for a massive copper mining ...

Russian state bank VEB will invest more than Rbs1.1tn ($13.4bn) into the development of the Baimskaya copper mine in the Chukotka region, reported Reuters. The Baimskaya project includes a mine ...

on March 21. U.S. Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota has introduced legislation to permanently ban mining for copper, nickel and precious metals near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The bill would make ...

Resolution Copper wants to extract copper from Oak ... public lands oversight and a 150-year-old mining law's relevance in the 21st century. The Mining Law of 1872 opened federal lands to mineral ...