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Critics say the country’s unique biodiversity is at risk as the government plans to boost mineral exports to $3bn by 2035

Mining is essential to modern lifestyles. Copper, iron and other mined products are vital to the products many people take for granted, like electronic devices. Being able to buy these goods quite easily may give a person a false sense of how difficult it is to extract the elements they’re…

Green groups and industry war axing of Moonlight Range Wind Farm project risks undermining confidence in renewables

Shane Jones is unapologetic about his plan to double mineral exports to $3bn over the next decade despite criticism over potential environmental impacts

The west Africa–Sahel region has seen a proliferation of militant Islamist groups since the 1990s.

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, Raman Kirpal and Shardool Katyayan are joined by senior journalist and CGNet Swara’s co-founder Shubhranshu Choudhary.We start with a discussion on the killing of 27 suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh this week and analyse if the Maoist movement in…

President Donald Trump threatened to levy 50% tariffs on goods from member nations of the European Union after Greenland gave a Danish-French mining company a 30-year mining permit.

The gold mining industry is today's second-best performing group.

Bitcoin mining has reached a record high – but the “dirty secret” of the cryptocurrency continues to rumble underneath.

Rescuers are attempting to provide food to the trapped workers in the three-kilometre-deep Kloof gold mine near Johannesburg

Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction