Teams from Barrick and Pakistan are currently finalizing a framework deal to develop the giant Reko Diq copper-gold deposit.

A local NGO says that the destruction of Venezuela’s tropical rainforest by illegal miners and armed groups is done with authorities’ consent.

The almost four billion-year-old piece of the earth's crust lies beneath the southwestern part of Western Australia.

Torrential rains are suspected to be the cause of the collapse of a tailings pond in the western Abangares canton.

A cost and schedule reforecast now pegs the total project costs at $7.06 billion, almost $1.8 billion higher than its original estimate in 2015.  

Four American environmental groups are pointing to a report commissioned by the BC Mining Law Reform and SkeenaWild Conservation Trust that analyzes the risks of tailings pond failures in B.C.

They will work on solutions for lower-carbon steelmaking, a process responsible for up to 9% of global greenhouse emissions.