The Conservation Fund said it will buy all 7,700 acres (31.16 square kilometers) that Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals owns outside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Georgia, ...

After six years, the controversial plan to mine next to Georgia’s beloved Okefenokee Swamp has been halted. The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit organization specializing in the acquisition of at-risk ...

The Conservation Fund's purchase halted a widely opposed titanium mining proposal near the largest blackwater swamp in North ...

Twin Pines Minerals agrees to sell its land near Okefenokee Swamp to The Conservation Fund, ending the threat of mining.

An Alabama-based company that was close to receiving the final go-ahead from the state to mine near the Okefenokee National ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A conservation group said Friday it has reached a $60 million deal to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a company environmentalists spent years battling over a proposed mine.

The Conservation Fund has purchased the land of a proposed mine site, called Trail Ridge, near the border of the Okefenokee ...

The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit, announced Friday it has purchased the proposed site of a deep earth mine near ...

The Alabama company that planned to mine titanium dioxide next to the Okefenokee Swamp has agreed to sell its property to an ...

A six-year battle to block a controversial mine near the Okefenokee Swamp is over after a nonprofit land conservation group bought the proposed site. Why it matters: Scientists and environmental ...

A conservation group purchased land near the swamp and wildlife refuge to halt a company's bid to mine for titanium.