The bottle was one of about 150 students decorated and inserted messages into, part of a project coordinated by volunteers George and Nancy Marvin and then-fifth grade teacher Tom Gannon. Students ...

Students at Florida Mesa Elementary shook blue and gold pom-poms as they sat on the gymnasium floor to hear plans for their ...

A host of problems with existing projects make matters worse. Ore quality—the amount of valuable metal in a sample of rock—is declining, forcing miners to dig deeper; mining permits can take years, if ...