CHEYENNE - With indications that Wyoming could see up to 50 new uranium mines, the state agency that oversees mining is shifting workers to handle the workload.

AUSTRALIA’S wealth of natural resources has been an economic powerhouse in the past decade.

Romina Maurino, The Canadian Press May 9, 2008 - 6:00 p.m. TORONTO - The chief executive of Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (TSX:AEM) says the mid-tier producer is poised for strong growth this year as more projects come on stream alongside an anticipated return to climbing gold prices.

During finals week at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, students can stress out so much that it affects them physically.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Nearly 150 years after gold was discovered in Boulder County along Gold Run Creek, a couple of old mines are slowly cranking back into operation now that excavating the slender veins of precious metal is profitable again.

Chile's worst drought in five decades and power rationing from South Africa to China mean the price of aluminum, gold, copper and platinum will keep climbing as the lights go out in the world's biggest mines.

TORONTO - The chief executive of Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (TSX:AEM) says the mid-tier miner is poised for strong growth this year as more projects come on stream alongside an anticipated return to climbing gold prices.

CEO Sean Boyd says company is on track to boost production and reserves as four mines begin production

In the impoverished Ferghana Valley in Kyrgyzstan, illegal coal mining is a dirty, dangerous part of the underground economy. After the huge Soviet mines in the region closed in the 1990s, jobless men and boys started their own small operations, using picks and shovels to claw coal out of the mountains. Some are as young as 11, miners say. Today, hundreds _ perhaps thousands _ of ...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A couple of gold mines are slowly cranking back into operation now that mining the precious metal is profitable again.