Testimony before the Madlanga Commission is exposing a web of relationships linking politically connected businessmen, private security firms and elements of South Africa’s policing establishment. At ...

Even as opposition grows and the U.S. territory maintains a moratorium on seabed mining, NOAA began a $20 million survey of ...

Discover the harsh realities of La Rinconada, Peru, the highest city in the world, where extreme altitude, crime, and gold mining impact lives and the environment.

The U.S. wants to quadruple nuclear power generation. Is fewer than two years of nuclear fuel worth sacrificing the Grand Canyon region?

A LARGE proportion of banks and investors are not screening for illegal mining risks despite operating in sectors vulnerable to illicit extraction, according to Reuters which cited a report by the ...

Strong institutions ensure that foreign investment supports sustainable growth rather than environmental decay.

A mineral resource is an estimate of the quantity and grade of mineralisation with reasonable prospects for eventual economic ...

Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

The Export-Import Bank is providing a $10 billion loan to Project Vault, an initiative to stockpile critical minerals. The ...

Over the past year, GOP leaders and the Trump administration have used a law known as the Congressional Review Act to push for coal mining in Montana, oil drilling in Alaska and copper mining in ...

The international pressure now surrounding Ghana’s gold policy is remarkable not because foreign governments are expressing concern—that is routine whenever major resource contracts are threatened—but ...

Source: Chinese firm begins gold, copper search in Bikita – herald George Maponga-Masvingo Bureau A Chinese mining firm, Twiza, has begun exploration for gold and copper in Devuli Ranch on the ...