China is the world’s largest coal producer and consumer. In 2024, the country produced more than 470 million metric tons of ...

SHELL — With temperatures pushing 100 degrees, a half-dozen people spent a recent dry, dusty July day scrambling around an open pit, digging for buried treasure in the hills above the sprawling Red ...

MMG’s data show a third of the extraction there has occurred in the last two years alone as part of a surge in informal ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A gold rush brought settlers to South Dakota’s Black Hills roughly 150 years ago, chasing the dream of wealth and displacing Native Americans in the process. Now, a new crop ...