Much like mines in the modern age, scholars have long assumed that ancient mining and metallurgy were highly toxic and ...

An Atlantic Richfield/BP contractor recently resumed work that grades, adds a soil cap and seeds black slag on Smelter Hill ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University overturns prevailing scientific beliefs that King Solomon’s mines not only harmed the ...

The research team conducted geochemical studies at copper mining sites in the Timna Valley in the Arava Desert.

A study from Tel Aviv University shows ancient copper mining had minimal environmental impact, challenging previous ...

More than 100,000 metric tons of copper concentrate stuck at the closed First Quantum mine in Panama do not currently pose an ...

A recent study conducted by Tel Aviv University challenges the popular belief about the environmental and health impacts ...

Slag is what remains from copper ore after a refractory furnace ... it became responsible for the cleanup of regional mining and smelting pollution. A few commercial operations have harvested ...

We found that pollution levels at the Timna copper mining sites are extremely low and ... further indicates that the metals are 'trapped' in slag and other industrial waste—which keeps them ...