The Latest Breaking News from Mining

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed an agreement worth tens of billions of dollars with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that was one of the country’s worst-ever environmental disasters

French mining firm Eramet is suspending plans to build a battery recycling plant in northern France as Europe’s electric vehicle (EV) sector struggles. Despite this, it's taking back full control of a lithium mine project in Argentina – crucial for tapping global demand for EV batteries.

Italian priest Davide Marcheselli has been fighting for years against Chinese companies illegally mining gold in the town of Kitutu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Australian mining giant BHP on Wednesday denied responsibility for a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, one of the country's worst environmental disasters, as it opened its defence at the High Court in London.

The giant Secunda complex of Sasol, South Africa’s biggest chemicals and energy company, provides the fundamental ingredients to South Africa’s petrochemical sector. It produces petrochemicals, plastics, chemicals essential to key industries such as agriculture (fertilisers) and mining (explosives), and 30% of the country’s liquid fuels. These value chains are very…

The mining giant faces a potential $47bn lawsuit filed by at least 600,000 people over the 2015 mining disaster.

A report by the World Resources Institute shows that rapidly expanding mining operations are causing widespread destruction of tropical primary rainforests and protected areas, raising carbon emissions and displacing Indigenous communities

The Mariana dam collapse has been dubbed Brazil’s worst ever mining disaster

Musicians from ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure have joined actors and authors in signing a protest letter against the mining of their artistry to build artificial intelligence tools