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Rats trained to sniff landmines, tuberculosis in Africa

In Mozambique, rats are trained to locate hidden landmines in the fields. African countries initially mocked the idea but now they want to enlist the rodents as well.

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Ecuador Indians in mining protest

Indigenous Ecuadorians march against a major Chinese mining project in the Amazon that they fear will pollute their land and water.

Ontario bans mining on huge stretch of land

The province of Ontario has removed 23,000 square kilometres of land near Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation from future mining claims.

VIDEO: Hopes for West Country mining

Contracts giving a mining company ownership of land in Cornwall which it says it needs for new buildings have been signed.

NTI gets first mine royalty payment of $2.2M

The Inuit land claims organization in Nunavut got its first-ever royalty payment Tuesday. It got $2.2 million for allowing Agnico-Eagle's Meadowbank gold mine on Inuit-owned land.

Gold mine demands family tree farm property

Nova Scotia's natural resources minister is caught in a tug of war between a gold mining company and a family of Christmas tree growers who don't want to sell their land.