Utah has a history rich in mining including copper, silver and uranium. Often when mines no longer produced, they were simply abandoned, leaving equipment, open shafts, tunnels and piles of waste ...

After declaring a national energy emergency earlier this year, President Donald Trump is looking to roll back federal ...

The third death was confirmed by a Utah Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman. All of the rescue workers in the mine at the time of the incident have been accounted for and removed ...

In large part, the disaster at the end of the tunnel is largely a human-made problem — specifically, the intense pumping of water from underground aquifers. Potash mining is an industrial ...

IRON COUNTY, Utah — It sounded different Friday outside the Iron Mountain Mine than it usually has over more than 100 years. "It was, it was quiet. It was. It was really weird," explained Mick ...

The Winter Quarters coal mines in Scofield, Utah provided a relatively rewarding ... Each man who went into the tunnels was well aware of the mining disasters that had claimed the lives of so ...

IRON COUNTY, Utah — The current uncertainty in global markets has forced an Iron County mining operation to suspend operations for an indefinite period of time. Utah Iron announced Wednesday ...