Bulgaria coal miners stay underground to protest layoffs, delayed salaries
The men began their protest when their shift ended on Tuesday morning and refuse to come up even though the mine's owner says it won't shut down the operation as planned.
Concerted campaign by the mining industry in collusion with Western Australia's Burke government thwarted efforts to give Aboriginal communities a greater say and share in resource development
The chance of start mining asteroids, workers told ‘death’ only excuse for not working on Christmas and MINING.com's very own list of top billionaires involved in minerals and metals, became some of the most-read stories of 2012.
Greenland’s treasure trove of rare earth metals, the largest deposit outside of China, cannot be mined because the elements are connected to restricted radioactive materials.