Illegal mining in Indonesia has reached unprecedented levels, harming legitimate companies and putting the economy and environment at risk. The illegal operators play havoc with the mine by stripping

A ecological disaster looms over North Sulawesi's Minahasa Peninsula. Rampant illegal gold mining is pouring hundreds of tonnes of mercury into the environment. The deadly flow threatens to undermine

Accidents in China's notoriously dangerous coal mines killed 2,730 miners in the first half of the year, state media reported on Wednesday as the government renewed calls to improve

There is no way to stop African warlords from trading illicit diamonds for guns. The black market in diamonds from rebel areas is just one symptom of a more complex problem, the ungovernability of

The Kudremukh iron ore mines in south Karnataka are once again in the eye of an environmental storm.A senior pontiff at the coastal temple town of Udipi has urged Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

De Beers, the mining gaint, will attempt to clean up the diamond trade by demanding a guarantee from buyers that they are not dealing in "conflict diamonds" smuggled out of Africa. Any diamond

Belgium said it had taken immediate action to enforce a United Nations embargo on diamond exports from Sierra Leone. The United Nations Security Council voted 14-0 to impose an 18-month embargo on

The Security Council has voted to impose a worldwide ban on the purchase of rough diamonds from Sierra Leone until the country's government can establish a system to certify the origin of stones

A potential health risk has developed in the Kakadu National Park where spent uranium tailings have surfaced on a tourist road and spilt into the nearby South Alligator River.An internal document on