The nation’s massive copper deposits are key to meeting growing global demand. A battle has emerged over who gets to mine and ...

As of Friday morning, the fire had scorched 150 acres and was 50% contained. An update was expected later Friday.

Diplomats from more than 30 nations have criticized a proposal that could allow the start of seabed mining by 2027.

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Bharatiya Janata Party MP accuses Uttarakhand government of illegal mining, State officials deny claims, revenue growth ...

Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition calling on U.K. multinational Jardine Matheson to cancel its plan to expand ...

The issue of illegal mining raised in the Lok Sabha by its own MP and former chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has put the BJP government in Uttarakhand in yet another piquant situation after the ...

This is part one of a series on the operation to evict illegal gold miners from the Munduruku Indigenous Territory. Part two, three, four and five are coming soon. In Brazil’s Amazon, an operation to ...

More than 40 people went on trial in Vietnam on Monday over illegal sand mining in the Mekong Delta, state media said, as ...

Canaan, a major manufacturer of Bitcoin miners, has unveiled Avalon Q, its new professional-grade Bitcoin mining machine for ...

Lithium is key to the push for cleaner energy, but its extraction affects tribal communities and tribal rights, so ...