Mining

The proposed Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola would need 22 towers to support it. The nonprofit Canyon Guard opposes the project and thinks Utahns don’t get how big the infrastructure will be. So, they’ve created a virtual tour of it.

It's known by the name Velvet-Wood, and the project's Canadian owner got the go-ahead back in May as the first to undergo an "accelerated," two-week environmental review, during which tribes had only seven days to reply.

It's the third proposed coal sale from public lands in the West to fall through this month despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost production of the fuel.

The rule adopted last year allowed public property to be leased for restoration in the same way that oil companies lease land for drilling.

The vote by House Republicans helps clear the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to sharply expand mining and drilling on public lands. The Republican-majority Senate must still approve the House action.

The potentially half-billion-dollar effort to extract rare earth metals from coal follows other fossil fuel projects in Utah and elsewhere that the Trump admin chases more domestic production.

Environmental reviews of mining operations normally take months or years. But after President Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency,” it took just 11 days for the Bureau of Land Management to approve the Velvet-Wood uranium mine's plan to resume operations in San Juan County.

The agreement settles a dispute over trucking ore from a mining operation just south of the Grand Canyon to a mill site in Blanding, Utah.

North America’s largest primary magnesium producer, US Magnesium, says the decision was due to a decline in the price of lithium carbonate.

Gov. Katie Hobbs said Friday that she intervened this week after talking with Navajo President Buu Nygren. The tribal president says Energy Fuels reneged on a verbal promise to give the tribe and others advance notice of shipments.

Tribal President Buu Nygren on Tuesday ordered Navajo police to set up roadblocks on federal highways and turn back any trucks carrying uranium.

Almost three years ago, an unlikely relationship formed between the declining coal town of Kemmerer and one of the richest people in the world: Bill Gates. That’s because his nuclear company, TerraPower, promised to pump life back into the town's economy with a “first of its kind” power plant.