An aerial view of a tailings dam storing waste from a copper-mining operation in Chile At least 23 million people around the world live on flood-plains contaminated by potentially harmful ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In southeastern Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley, a region that is home to up to 85% of the country’s known lithium deposits, residents say the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant Mine, just north of Yellowknife, N.W.T., in September 2011. The gold mine officially opened in 1948 and was operational for ...

MISSOURI, USA — The government will soon deploy low-flying aircraft to sweep Missouri and other Midwest states over the next year, scanning the ground for the presence of critical minerals. The U.S.

The impacts of mining on local people and the environment should be a “central concern” of the energy transition, said Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human ...

The largely unregulated mining of rare earth minerals in Myanmar’s Kachin state is taking a heavy toll on forests, rivers and human health, according to sources and satellite imagery collected by ...

China has played a key role in strengthening Zambia’s mining industry, supporting the country’s push to produce 3 million tonnes of copper by 2033 to capitalise on the growing global demand for ...