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European legislators on Wednesday unexpectedly voted in favour of a law requiring firms to ensure they do not use so-called conflict minerals from Africa...
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Europe will consider this week whether to follow the United States by bringing in tighter controls on “conflict minerals” from war zones, but critics...
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Rescuers Friday said they had found six bodies in a collapsed, unlicensed gold mine on an indigenous reservation in a central Colombian town. Another...
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Colombian crews resumed efforts Thursday to rescue at least 15 workers trapped in a mine collapse, as authorities launched an investigation into the owners...
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At least 15 people were trapped underground Wednesday when an unlicensed gold mine in western Colombia collapsed, authorities said, as rescue workers raced to...
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Turkey on Wednesday sombrely marked the first anniversary of a mine disaster that left 301 miners dead in the country’s worst ever industrial accident....
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Peruvian troops have been deployed to help maintain law and order after weeks of deadly protests about a controversial mining project in the country’s...
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At least 19 Tanzanian gold miners were killed when the pit they were working in collapsed in the northwestern Msalala district, a local government...
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The chief executive of the mine where 301 miners died in 2014 in Turkey’s deadliest industrial accident on Thursday insisted he was not a...
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Eight former managers from the mine where Turkey’s worst industrial disaster occurred in May 2014 appeared in court Wednesday on murder charges, with prosecutors...