With industry and investor awareness and attention increasing, environmental, social governance issues are influencing hiring requirements and skills employers are seeking in candidates.
Workers will go to extreme lengths to break into mine sites in Africa, sometimes tunneling underneath walls or living underground to extract ore with a pick-axe.
Native communities from the Peruvian Amazon and the Andes have filed at least eight lawsuits against the government since passage of the so-called "prior consultation" law in 2011.