The federal government recently offered up thousands of acres for coal mining across Utah. But recent coal mining leases have ...

Gov. Spencer Cox promotes critical minerals opportunities in Utah at international mining conference in Sydney, Australia.

After a go-ahead from the state this month, Anfield Energy will officially begin construction on its uranium and ...

While Utah does have active uranium mines, it lacks the capacity to downblend uranium to a necessary status as fuel for advanced nuclear reactor technology. The United States hopes to get in on that ...

Federal officials have rejected a mining company’s bid for 1.3 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah ...

Federal officials rejected a mining company’s bid for 1.3 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah, marking the third proposed coal sale from public lands in the West to fall through ...

Once that critical mineral is dug up, it will leave the Copper State entirely. Despite the six-decade project still not being ...

Environmentalists filed a lawsuit on Monday to prevent the construction of a new potash mine that they say would devastate a lake ecosystem in the drought-stricken western Utah desert. The complaint ...

Note to readers • This story was originally published by High Country News. In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find enough ...

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SALT LAKE CITY — A new report by the Utah Geological Survey details the value and the diversity of the state's mining industry — which was responsible for close to $10 billion last year. The industry ...