We are not talking about sending humanoid robots down the mines—although it could be possible—but retrofitting old equipment with artificial intelligence that ...

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to batteries and catalysts for chemical reactions. Since the 1980s, a race has ...

OAKLAND — The difference in mining methods will have a lot to do with how the ground above the mine comes out, two experts told a crowd of area people in a potential mining hotbed Tuesday. Subsidence, ...

A recent study published in Engineering presents a novel method for addressing the environmental challenges posed by coal mining, specifically focusing on the treatment of coal mine goafs, utilization ...

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A team of geologists analyzed 3,500 samples taken in and around coal mines in Utah and Colorado. Their findings open the possibility that these mines could see a secondary resource stream in the form ...

Your second and third years have distinctive course requirements and electives. Here we can compare four related majors through select second and third year courses. This course presents a study of ...