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Search Minerals Announces Successful Metallurgical Testing of Foxtrot Project Sample to Recover a 55.48% TREO + Y2O3 Product (46.99% TREE+Y) with Overall Average Recovery of 78.8%

A tiny company with approval to mine tar sands in Utah is raising money for a first-of-its kind project in the U.S. that some fear could lead to widespread destruction of public lands in the Rocky Mountain region.

SALT LAKE CITY - A tiny company with approval to mine tar sands in Utah is raising money for a first-of-its kind project in the U.S. that some fear could lead to widespread destruction of public lands in the Rocky Mountain region.

Essential for building electric car batteries and solar technology, lithium is a raw material of the future. Now a German firm is searching for deposits of the valuable resource in the country's Ore Mountains.

Attention, railroad and history enthusiasts: Mark your calendar for May 19 and 20 in Baker County for the Sumpter Valley Railway Weekend sponsored by the Geiser Grand Hotel

Compass Minerals reports the following results of its first-quarter operations:

Industry has ruined a lot of Pennsylvania's water. Coal mining companies hammered the state, leaving behind acidic water that turned thousands of miles of streams into dead zones. People in the state are looking for ways to make sure the fracking boom doesn't deal another blow to its water.

Looking for something to do in Kansas on a sunny Saturday last spring, I chose darkness, and drove to Hutchinson (pop. 42,000) to take a tour of the subterranean salt mines at the edge of town. At a museum, you buy a ticket and ride a large, clanky freight elevator 650 feet underground, into pitch black. Read full article >>

New eco-lodges in little-visited Bolivia are making the most of wonders from salt flats to multicoloured lakes – all at well over 3,000m I was strapped in for one of the rides of my life. The engine purred and we moved forward. Soon the ground disappeared, and beneath me was nothing but blue sky and white fluffy clouds. I looked across at my friend Ally, sitting next to me. She had a big grin ...