Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Freedom Mine near Beulah, North Dakota, provides coal to plants operated by Basin Electric Power Cooperative. (Photo by Jeff ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former coal mine near Beulah, N.D., is being converted to a processing site for nickel and other minerals. (Jeff Beach/North ...

Former coal mining site is set to be developed to process critical minerals for domestic defense and energy requirements, reducing current dependence on China and Russia Talon and Westmoreland have ...

Stacey Tschider, center, CEO of Rainbow Energy Center, speaks during the Lignite Energy Council annual meeting on Nov. 13, 2025. The panel also included Carroll Dewing, right, vice president of North ...

Federal officials are advancing a request to dig up coal on federal land that the Biden administration stopped short of approving. Trump officials are moving to quickly approve mining on a large swath ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday took a key step toward leasing new areas to a North Dakota coal mine that is proposing to operate through 2045. The publication of a draft environmental analysis of ...

It would seem that the links that one can draw between our Stone Age ancestors and us do not spring forth from the scientific world holding paintbrushes and microscopes, but instead come from the ...

BEULAH, N.D. — A retired North Dakota coal mine is set to become the new home of a nickel processing plant. Minnesota-based Talon Metals and Westmoreland Mining Co. signed an agreement Wednesday that ...

The planned lease sale supports President Donald Trump’s vow to restore mining and increase use of coal as part of his energy dominance agenda. The Trump administration is taking another step toward ...

BEULAH — Companies seeking to mine coal on federal land in North Dakota are gaining traction under Trump administration policies, with some environmental groups saying changes to the lease process ...