Sandvik’s Mining division, which accounts for more than half of group sales, recorded a 24% year-on-year increase in orders ...

A Redwood Falls business owner is seeking to open a hard rock quarry on a granite outcrop near the Swedes Forest Scientific and Natural Area. The Swedes Forest Scientific Natural Area protects granite ...

Dec. 10—A decadeslong effort to make it easier for "good Samaritan" groups to clean up the thousands of abandoned hard rock mines that dot the American West is a signature away from a major milestone.

SILVERTON — For more than 50 years, third-generation miner Terry Rhoades has mixed blood and sweat with sheer grit and determination to tear into the hard rock of the San Juan Mountains searching for ...