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In a dark, smoke-filled mine shaft, a group of South African rescue trainees heave and gasp after crawling through a narrow steel pipe —...
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Dangerous working conditions, scant safety standards, inhumane living quarters and violent racism — South African gold miners endured decades of hardship underground. Their stories...
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Hundreds of thousands of South African gold miners can pursue a multi-million-dollar class action against mining companies over an often-fatal respiratory disease contracted at...
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Mexico’s largest mining conglomerate, Grupo México, has been permitted to reopen an old copper mine that was closed 25 years ago in Angangueo, a...
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BHP Billiton Friday said it was making “substantial progress” to help communities devastated by a fatal Brazilian mine accident, as the commodities giant’s share...
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A rare violet diamond, the largest of its kind ever found at Australia’s remote Argyle mine, will be the centrepiece of Rio Tinto’s annual...
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Colombia’s widespread illegal mining is blamed for causing environmental damage and holding workers in slave-like conditions — and now is also being blamed for...
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Four million people in Santiago were without tap water Sunday after unusually heavy rain pounding central Chile triggered landslides that fouled the city’s water...
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Sanctions imposed by many western nations against Iran are being lifted. This followed an announcement made in January 2016 by John Kerry. This was...
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Almost half of all natural World Heritage Sites, including the Great Barrier Reef and Machu Picchu, are threatened by industrial activities such as mining,...