The open pit mining operation at the site, called Blackbird, supported a town with a population of 250 named Cobalt. Things changed in the early 90’s when federal regulators confirmed pollution ...

Is all that talk of mining asteroids for real? A Seattle company, Planetary Resources, has given ABC News an advance look at the plans it is announcing. Its founders jump-started space tourism and ...

LEADING environmentalists have criticised the ABC and Professor Marcia Langton after revelations her recent ABC Boyer Lectures, in which she praised the mining industry's role in the emergence of ...