The best-performing South African miner this year is defying the country’s contemporary reputation for ever-more costly and lower-grade gold production. Pan African Resources Plc extracts the ...

Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino said a government report shows there are no immediate environmental or safety risks from Cobre Panama, the First Quantum Minerals Ltd. copper mine that was ...

After weeks working — then later, trapped and starved by violent gang leaders — in the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, he clung weakly to a makeshift pulley winching him to ...

“Going to the mines is a roll of the dice,” she says. “The women are seriously humiliated there. They may be slapped in the face and yelled at. “I was sleeping in my bedroom and a guy ...

New findings reveal King Solomon’s Mines were eco-friendly by ancient standards, with confined pollution zones and no modern health risks, shattering exaggerated claims of prehistoric environmental ...

A proposed mine in New Brunswick's northernmost municipality of Heron Bay is one step closer to becoming a reality. In mid-December, the local council passed a bylaw amendment that will allow the ...

It might have been greatly mistaken at first to look at the Diavik Diamond Mine in the barren landscape of northern Canada’s territories and think of nothing more than another mining company that digs ...

Talon Metals, which is trying to mine nickel near Tamarack, Minn., says it will dig a simpler path to the ore it wants to extract.

Researchers focused on three key events: a bottleneck 900,000 years ago (Event 1), the divergence of modern and archaic humans 650,000 years ago (Event 2), and interbreeding between Homo sapiens ...

Ted Olson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

New open-pit coal mines in the foothills will be banned and ... an opportunity to reclaim a formerly mined area and demonstrate modern, responsible mining practices for critical raw materials ...