In Senegal’s gold-rich Kedougou region, women and children face serious health risks from mercury exposure used in gold processing.

An armed group has attacked an artisanal gold mining site in southern Mali, one of Africa’s largest gold-producing countries.

To obtain the copper ore, Resolution would use a method known as block cave mining, in which tunnels are drilled beneath the ore body, and then collapsed, leaving the ore to be moved to a crushing ...

The Metals Company's US subsidiary has applied to NOAA for deep-sea mining permits, bypassing the International Seabed Authority and sparking international controversy. This move, enabled by a ...

45689 EL and Mining Lease N0. 62680 ML or any other licence. The correspondence stated: “We, the undersigned members of Libata, Kabirba, Kwanga communities of Warra District, of Ngaski Local ...

SURIGAO CITY—Suspended illegal mining operations in Barangays Mat-i and Mabini have quietly resumed, shocking residents and igniting fresh outrage in communities already burdened by ...

“By unilaterally pursuing mining in international waters in defiance of the rest of the world, the Administration is opening a door for other countries to do the same,” he said.

Beneath a volcano in El Salvador lies a secretive mega-prison where the only way out, according to the justice minister, is in a coffin. Known as CECOT — the Spanish language acronym for ...

South African National Parks has blocked a bid by a company controlled by billionaire Patrice Motsepe to tap South Africa’s second-biggest phosphate deposit in one of the nation’s most ...

President Trump signed an executive order to step up deep-sea mining within the US and in international waters. Sea mining shares surged, while environmentalists criticize the ‘reckless ...

Sherwin has himself trained in a mine shaft that extended a mile and a half vertically and horizontally, and on Thursday, he romanticized the experience. “To think of the history that existed in ...

United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to expand the controversial but financially lucrative practice of deep-sea mining in a bid to lock down US access to critical ...