The Latest Breaking News from Mining

The Goldenberg scandal in the early 1990s is Kenya’s largest documented gold fraud. The scheme involved Goldenberg International Limited, which pretended to export gold and diamonds, and in exchange received substantial subsidies from the government for “earning” foreign exchange. Kenyan businessman Kamlesh Pattni – who was at the centre of…

SCOTLAND’S coal mining communities are still “haunted” by the devastation of the Thatcher years and more needs to be done to boost local…

In this edition: as the war in Sudan enters its third month, the country's health system has all but collapsed. We hear from the Red Cross. We also have a report from our correspondent in Niger, where the fate of a mining company's operations is in question. Plus we meet…

The Canadian-headquartered mining company is working to revive production at the historic South Crofty mine in Pool near Redruth

Communities living close to coal mines in India face the constant threat of coal fires and land subsidence forcing them to flee their homes.

The special court of sessions, set up to exclusively deal with criminal cases related to former and present MPs/MLAs in Karnataka, has ordered attachment of 82 properties belonging to former Minister G. Janardhana Reddy and his wife G. Lakshmi Aruna till the adjudication of the corruption case related to illegal…

Labor’s voter-pleasing cost-of-living handouts, new housing and health funding have now been linked to increasing royalties on mining profits

Champion of her ancestral forest, Brazilian Indigenous activist Alessandra Korap Munduruku was one of this year's recipients of the Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activists.

The Thalaiyuthu police have arrested three persons and seized two lorries and a dipper lorry from their possession on charges of illegal sand mining