Joe Pizarchik, who led the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement from 2009 to 2017, says Alabama’s move…
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An appeal hearing opened Monday in South Africa on whether a subsidiary of British-based…
Brazilian public health researchers have found mounting evidence in the state hosting COP30 that mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining…
Nearly 450 billion yuan ($63 billion) has been invested in mineral exploration and 150 new mineral deposits have been discovered…
In May 2025, the China Global South Initiative (CGSi), a collaboration between the Keough School of Global Affairs and the…
For more than two decades, Ross Orr has been challenging one of mining’s most prominent paradoxes: The Sustainability Paradox, which often…
Mexico’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources ( Semarnat ) is working on creating a National Catalog of Mining Units to provide…
KATHMANDU — When the monsoon arrives in Jhumlabang village in Nepal’s far west, 35-year-old Til Kumari B.K. spends hours in…
Brazil’s National Congress in Brasília, lawmakers, Indigenous leaders and civil society representatives gathered to present a global parliamentary investigation into the…
Armed criminal groups tear down precious rainforest to capitalise on record gold prices, report finds. An illegal gold rush has…