Hauling iron ore across Australia’s outback pays some 400 engineers about $224,000 per year, but the gravy train is coming to an end thanks to robots. International mining giant Rio Tinto Group plans ...

A huge runaway train laden with iron ore had to be derailed remotely after speeding through the Australian outback for almost an hour. The 268-wagon train started on its solo journey when the driver ...

DELTA, Colo. – On the Western Slope of Colorado – like many other communities across the country – sits a county where coal mining has employed thousands of people for the past century. However, in ...

On Monday, Australian authorities intentionally derailed a runaway mining train that escaped the control of its operator. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau outlined the incident in a report ...

MILLTOWN - Every evening, a 45-car train rumbles away from the Clark Fork River, loaded not with copper, gold or silver ore, but with the toxic legacy of more than a century of mining: tons of ...

Television journalist Alexey Pivovarov and his team have launched an interactive website called Norilsk Film, which tells the story of Norilsk, the world’s northernmost major city. Visitors to the ...