Colonnata is one of a few small quarry towns in the mountains above Massa-Carrara, Italy. The Colonnata field, a large vein of white “Carrara” marble, has...

Minas de Riotinto and this particular tract of Huelva province, an hour's drive northwest of Sevilla, seemed an important stop for the scale of both its physical...

In route between Kiruna and Stockholm, I stopped in Falun. Now a quiet, summer town, it for centuries supplied the majority of Europe's copper—Stora...

“Ore” isn't a geological term, but a commercial classification for that which is worthwhile, so the “discovery” of iron in Sweden’s Norrland wilderness...

Martin Fluri & Søren Lyngsgaard at Cradle to Cradle Denmark/EPEA Copenhagen talked to me about the long-running C2C aspiration of creating what they called a ...