Former Ponderay Newsprint mill reopens as cryptocurrency mining operation
USK, Wash. – The old Ponderay Newsprint Company is now home to thousands of cryptocurrency mines. Merkle Standard says it wants to make money for the region…
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WA lawsuit accuses gold mining company of dragging its feet on cleanup
A federal judge allows suit to proceed, as the state says run-off from the mine is seeping into Okanogan water sources.
Idaho unemployment insurance claims increase 143 percent
Claims have skyrocketed since Gov. Little's declaration of a state of emergency.
EPA reverses Obama-era decision that blocked Alaska mine project
The Environmental Protection Agency has lifted an Obama-era restriction that had blocked a controversial mining project in Alaska.
Company is America's best chance to loosen China's grip on rare earths
Less than an hour from the glitzy casinos and high-rise hotels of Las Vegas, the miners at Mountain Pass are reviving an industry that nearly disappeared from American soil.
Made in the Northwest: Hoffman Manufacturing
When Hoffman Manufacturing was founded in 2007, it wasn't making mining products. But the business evolved after doing fabrication work for some customers in the mining industry.
Police clear tree houses in German forest for mining company
Activists in a forest in western Germany are resisting attempts by police to remove tree houses that environmentalists have occupied for years and to make way for mining company RWE to raze further sections of the forest.
Facebook suspends another data analytics firm
Facebook announced Friday that it is suspending another data analytics firm pending an investigation into how the company used its data.
5 miners die in South Africa copper mine fire
Five miners died in a South African copper mine Sunday after a fire trapped the workers underground, the country's Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union said.
Bitcoin: What's driving the frenzy?
2017 has become the year bitcoin went big.
Sweden's arctic 'millipede town' is slowly moving
Kiruna, a town in northern Sweden, is on the move. Located in Lapland, within the Arctic Circle, the town and many of its 18,000 residents are being relocated to New Kiruna, two miles (3.2 kilometers) to the east over the next 20 years.
BLM places 2-year limit on mining in Methow Valley
The Bureau of Land Management says it will make 340,000 acres in Methow Valley off-limits to mining for two years while it studies the potential impact of large-scale mines.
