BOGOTA (Reuters) - At least 20 mine workers were killed and many were injured on Wednesday in an explosion in a coal mine in Colombia that authorities said was likely caused by methane gas. The blast ...

JAKARTA -- The Indonesian government has begun cracking down on illegal practices by extractive industries, such as mining ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Vale said on Thursday that it plans to invest $2.5 billion over the next five years in technology that removes the need for tailings dams, the waste facilities ...

When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers ...

Celios evaluates that ecological disasters, such as floods, not only affect the regional economy but also the national ...

Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia confirmed that he will deploy a team to inspect mining operations in Aceh and North Sumatra.

Indonesia will revoke mining permits if companies are found to have violated rules on flood-ravaged Sumatra island, the ...

One month ago, on September 8, approximately 800,000 tons of mud slid into an underground portion of the Grasberg mine. Located in Indonesia, this is one of the world’s largest copper mines.

Ceremony to mark one year of Vale tailings dam collapse in Brumadinho BRUMADINHO, Brazil (Reuters) - Exactly one year ago a tailings dam in the Brazilian town of Brumadinho collapsed, killing more ...

Never before seen secret records and artefacts of one of Britain’s worst ever mining disasters are going on display for the first time. They will be seen on the 91st anniversary of the Gresford ...

THE latest string of mining disasters in Zamfara State remains a grim feature of a sector that continues to erase lives yet receives little attention or the regulation it desperately needs. So, the ...