A desert in San Bernardino County, in the state of California, is usually the home of gold and silver mining, but a few active turquoise
The government of New Zealand has recently announced it is working on new solutions to handle emergencies and accidents in underground mines. The protocol will
Amidst elements with funny names and other well-known materials with names we have all heard before, there are also minerals with awkward, tongue-twisting names. Many
Although the Chinese government repeatedly keeps denying the reports of forced evictions, almost two million Tibetan pastoralists claim to have been forcibly displaced from their own
The controversy around Taseko Mines’ New Prosperity gold and copper project, to be installed in the British Columbia Interior, keeps growing. The First Nations guarantee the project won’t
The Chinese Xinjiang province, in the western part of the country, witnessed a violent explosion in a coal mine that killed 21 workers. According to the Xinhua
The mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP are very close to open the largest copper mine in the United States. The Resolution mine will be located
The Coquimbo region, in the arid region of northern Chile, just opened the first solar plant for the mining sector in the area. The goal is
Table of Contents1. The cost of contraction: mining productivity hits new lows2. Matching supply to demand: market imbalances wreak commodity price havoc3. The remaking of mining: exploring the
Every miner knows the risks it takes to work in such an industry. However, nothing can prepare someone for accidents like the ones we are