Nearly 450 billion yuan ($63 billion) has been invested in mineral exploration and 150 new mineral deposits have been discovered nationwide during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period, the ...

Mining these huge panels doesn't come without a cost, however. Underground mining causes what's known as subsidence -- the land above a mine settles -- but since longwall mining leaves behind no ...

Robots don’t belong on volleyball courts, but for more than a decade Virginia Tech students had no other large, sandy place to test out mining robots. It was “a real lost opportunity” that students ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Katie Deighton: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, July 2nd. I'm ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Technological University is preparing to celebrate the 125th anniversary of its mining engineering program with a three-day series of events Sept. 25–27. Themed “From Butte ...

From core shacks to cloud systems, mining is entering a digital era where innovation could shape how projects move forward. In mining, billion-dollar bets depend on how someone reads a rock.

Montana Tech mining engineering student Alex Broili won't graduate from college until May 2007, but it appears that he won't have any trouble finding a good job. ''I've already had some offers,'' ...