Copper demand is rising in the U.S. and is set to double in the next 10 years. Mining executives say more mines need to open ...

Liberty Falls is operated by a concession for the Alaska Department of Natural ... in 1909 as a railway to support the Kennecott Copper Mines. Mining stopped in 1938 and in 1971 a new bridge ...

The executive order issued by U.S. president Donald Trump on increasing domestic mineral production is designed to cut through ...

Metal mines handle and dispose of some of the largest quantities of toxic chemicals in the country, and one of the biggest ...

Every day, these giant dump trucks move millions of pounds of rock at Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine. As you look at the dump trucks, hauling ore out of the largest open pit copper mine in the ...

Copper is not on the U.S. critical minerals list but gets a special mention in Trump's executive order, along with gold, ...

At more than 120 years old, the mine has produced more copper than any other on the planet. "The history of Kennecott is what keeps me here. I just am absolutely enamored with it. Twenty-five ...