ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½

At least three companies have staked mining claims in some of the best remaining sage grouse habitat in Oregon.

The company exploring an Oregon lithium deposit is encouraged by efforts to bolster the U.S. critical minerals supply chain, but a mining pitch is still years away.

In the form of a lithium-ion battery, this mineral powers everything from solar panels to electric cars. So far, lithium used in the United States is imported from other countries that commercially extract it. But with interest in the mineral growing rapidly, that will soon change.

Oregon’s senior senator says the U.S. needs to source, refine and recycle more critical minerals like lithium domestically as the nation transitions off fossil fuels.

A supervolcano, a massive eruption and a lost lake left Oregon with what could be the largest known lithium deposit in the United States.

The project in southern Malheur County could eventually help supply a growing U.S. appetite for domestic lithium used to make batteries.

Fishermen and tribes have been fighting the mine proposal for a decade, fearing it would harm the wild sockeye salmon at the heart of the area's economy and culture.

In 1848, the first pioneer settler in the Shasta region, Pearson B. Reading, successfully mined the Trinity River near Douglas City. News of his exploits…

A Congressmember from Utah is renewing his efforts to undo a ban on mining near several pristine waterways in southwest Oregon. And federal lawmakers from…

Althouse Creek in Josephine County was one of the earliest gold mining regions in Southern Oregon. Mining continued there well into the 20th century.…

By 1852, mining in the Klamath River region attracted nearly a thousand miners. Most moved on as easy gold played out, but a number settled along the…

The scientists of the American Fisheries Society spent four years working on a position paper on how mining and fossil-fuel extraction affect…