Heavy machinery, some big rigs, and lots and lots of salt. The Redmond Salt Mine in Central Utah is only about 800 to 1,000 ...

A study last year said just over a third of Americans knew much about critical minerals, vital to the country's economic and ...

With an estimated 10,000 hazardous abandoned mine openings, state officials have relaunched a program to warn the public ...

Now that the United States is energy dominant, mineral independence must be the next step in securing the materials needed ...

Utah is poised to create new zones to eventually make its goal of capturing 20% to 25% of the country’s critical minerals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Utah company says it has unearthed a massive deposit of minerals crucial for building electric vehicles, semiconductors, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The top power brokers in the Utah Legislature announced on Tuesday that one of their aims for the 2026 legislative session is to make Utah the No. 1 destination for critical mineral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Capitol in Salt Lake City is pictured on the first day of the legislative session, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Photo by Spenser ...

Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about ...

CAPITOL HILL—Republican leaders of the Utah House and Senate opened the 2025 legislative session with both calls to action and words of warning on Tuesday, describing conditions where the water and ...

Utah’s desert is suddenly looking less like empty space on the map and more like the front line of a new resource race. A discovery of critical minerals and rare earth elements at a site called ...