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Communities affected by opencast mines have called on the government to act after it was revealed that the shortfall in funds for cleaning up abandoned mines in East Ayrshire has more than doubled. See...

LAON press release, 14/9/13 “How is it that an opencast coal site, which when first worked in 1955, is worked for 40 years and over 34m tonnes of coal is extracted. Then it's left derelict, is then considered as a landfill site amongst other uses, with another 30...

The Geneva home of Beny Steinmetz, the billionaire natural-resources investor who is Israel's richest person, was raided by Swiss police, according to a person familiar with the matter. The raid was ordered by Geneva's public prosecutor following a request by the...

An estimated 100 employees and contractors were evacuated from Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah, US, after the site was affected for a small landslide, the second this year in the same area. See...

Former Bougainville Revolutionary Army Commander, Sam Kauona, says the 10-year bloody conflict, which claimed the lives of many Bougainvilleans, Papua New Guineans and Solomon Islanders, was the result of colonialism. He demands that current laws on Bougainville be...

The top copper marketing executive at Rio Tinto Ltd. will take over as the head of Oyu Tolgoi, the giant Mongolian copper and gold mine controlled by Rio Tinto, Oyu Tolgoi said on Wednesday. Oyu Tolgoi's board, including three new Mongolian members, approved the...

The annual miners' conference which took place in Manila was accompanied by high security and the customary annual protests. Pickets outside the venue called for the immediate withdrawal of all military and paramilitary troops from mining areas and for the passage of...

Glencore Xstrata to pursue $3bn iron ore project in Congo Mega miner Glencore Xstrata and London-listed junior partner Zanaga Iron Ore Company have decided to move forward with the assessment of their vast iron ore mining project in the Republic of Congo, which may...

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd said toxic waste it spilled recently affected 1.6 kilometres (1 mile) of a tributary of South Africa's Vaal River in at least the second leak from its Mine Waste Solutions unit in the past five months. See...

London-listed African Minerals Ltd gravely missed its predictions for output in 2012, but the country's large miners are gearing up for expansion as smaller ones are told to use or lose their licences. As Sierra Leone plans to unleash a new wave of regulators and tax...