The new “Apex” plan would extend the decades-old Bingham Canyon Mine’s life until about 2040.

I am a tropical ecologist by training. While Salt Lake City is my home now, I lived most of my 20s in a tiny town in Panama, whose population primarily comprised of canal workers and research ...

(AP) The landslide that washed over the terraced steps of a mining pit nearly a mile deep left only the tip of one giant electric-powered shovel poking out of the dirt. The rubble buried three of them ...