Libya’s cheap power fueled a hidden Bitcoin mining boom, straining the grid and forcing authorities into an escalating crackdown. Libya’s cheap, subsidized electricity made it profitable to run even ...

OAK GROVE, Ala.—A coal miner named Jose Antonio M. Lara died early Wednesday morning following a rock collapse inside the Oak Grove mine, a facility in Jefferson County, just southwest of Birmingham.

Highway construction. By Andrey Grigoriev via iStock for WMNF News. Hardee County’s Planning and Zoning Board pushed forward Thursday proposed changes to a map that shows where phosphate may be mined ...

EVE Online is an MMO game set in a world of galactic proportions, governed by a hyper-capitalistic economy where space flight is the path to all commerce, communication, and conflict. EVE is a ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

Dawn and Scott Wilson can’t figure out why a state mining engineer decided the cracks in the basement of a home they own in North Belle Vernon were caused by dry soil rather than mine subsidence. They ...

Once home to 4,000 residents, Gagnon was a thriving mining town in northern Quebec. In 1985, it was dismantled — every building removed, every road erased. Today, it exists only in memories and maps ...

The Trump administration has announced plans to open 13 million acres of federal land for coal mining, as part of President Donald Trump's aim to bolster the shrinking U.S. coal industry. The policy, ...

I recently rediscovered a Google Maps feature that I completely forgot existed, but you can’t really blame me. If you frequent travel subreddits and forums, you’ll likely be familiar with My Maps, ...

The U.S. has partnered with the Cook Islands, a self-governing country in the South Pacific, to develop the latter's resource potential and build up America's critical mineral stockpile. "The ...

What is crypto mining on wheels, and how did Russian authorities discover it? A mobile cryptocurrency mining operation involves installing mining equipment, such as application-specific integrated ...