Though production's ending in two years, reclamation work will still take years

Canada has long profited from West Africa’s gold resources. In fact, every year, these firms extract billions in revenue from the region. Right now, however, Canadian companies in West Africa are quarreling with an increasingly independent bloc of states determined to constrain the ability of foreig...

Mercury and other heavy metals in the country have contaminated over 60% of the West African country’s water sources, according to Ghana’s Water Resources Commission.

Fortescue says it has developed a 6 MW charger that can reboot the 1.8 MWh batteries in its giant electric haul trucks in just half an hour.

Environmental groups are asking Ottawa to enforce its rules on an Alberta coal site that has started building an underground test mine without fisheries permits that officials have said are required.

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A federal agency is asserting legal rights to waters that feed the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge, setting up a new battle with a mining company seeking permits to withdraw more than 1.4 million gallons per day.

Mining companies and their joint venture Samarco ordered by Brazilian judge to pay AU$14.7bn over disaster that killed 19 people

Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?

A new gold rush is hitting Johannesburg, literally flattening the South African city whose Zulu name “Egoli” means City of Gold.

BHP's plan to spend billions more on a Saskatchewan potash mine is getting resounding approval from Lanigan mayor Tony Mycock.

Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 17 chemically similar metals, which got their name because they typically occur at low concentrations (between 0.5 and 67 parts per million) within Earth's crust. Because they are indispensable in modern technology such as light-emitting diodes, mobile phone...

World’s biggest miner cuts back in most profitable part of its business to meet emissions targets

China has imposed restrictions on the exports of gallium and germanium, ratcheting up trade tensions with Western allies. #EuropeNews

A massive fight among hundreds of migrant workers from Central Asian states broke out over the weekend at Gazprom’s Kovykta gas field

An open-pit coalmine has collapsed, killing at least five people in Mongolia

The needs of the American people will not be met without further bipartisan agreements that address mine permitting reform.

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Canada is offering incentives to mining companies to dig in its northern regions for the critical minerals needed for EVs and solar panels. But based on past abuses, critics fear carbon-rich peatlands will be lost, wild rivers polluted, and enormous cleanup projects left behind.

Synthetic fuels could challenge EV vehicles, but up until now, high production costs have rendered these types of fuel uncompetitive

National security fears linger as Chinese miner considering partial drainage of Manitoba’s Bernic Lake and construction of open pit mine to access cesium trapped underground

Glencore has proposed buying Teck Resources’s coal business as an alternative to its $23 billion takeover bid that was rejected. Read more