BLUEFIELD — With the return of Bluefield State University’s Mining Engineering Technology degree program, local officials are now hoping to play a larger role in the resurgence of coal. That was the ...

Update: UTEP announced a $7 million investment by Freeport-McMoRan. The money will help re-start the mining engineering degree program. “Mining is a $10 billion-plus industry in Texas," said UTEP ...

Kevin Sabin, president of the UK mining trade association ABMEC and Group Managing Director of Brownlee Cale, a specialist recruitment agency for the construction, civil engineering, facilities ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — As decade-high gold and silver prices spark a renewed interest in mining in the West, there are few mining education programs and fewer students earning mining engineering degrees due ...