Illegal stone crushing mills and other quarrying activities not only continue to operate under the nose of officials as Navi Mumbai, but are also posing a major hazard to nearby industries storing

South Africa's Minerals and Energy Ministry has budgeted R100-million over the next 15 to 20 years to rehabilitate dozens of abandoned asbestos mines, after nearly a century of unscrupulous mining

The Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd said on Tuesday it would plead not guilty to charges it had violated Canadian fish protection rules at the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories. BHP, operator

A high human toll : "China produces one-fourth of the world's coal, but accounts for four-fifths of the world's coal-industry fatalities," Wang Shengshen, a mining engineer at the Chinese University

A "chain of custody" should be established for diamonds to satisfy people that they have not bought gems from conflict zones, according to a report, published by Global Witness. The influential

Some 61,000 acres in and around a Tennessee state park have been ruled out of bounds for surface coal mining at the urging of environmentalist groups, but an area farther upstream will be opened to

A threat by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to seize the assets of foreign minig companies dealt a further blow to investor confidence on Thursday in a country already suffering political and

A threat by President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to seize the assets of foreign mining companies dealt a further blow to investor confidence in a country already suffering political and economic

A gold smelter in Romania blamed for a big cyanide spill in European rivers in January has restarted operations with tighter safety measures, Australian part-owner Esmeralda Exploration Ltd said

Hungary expressed surprise over Romania's decision to restart operations at a gold smelter which caused a big cyanide spill into Hungarian rivers and surronding farmland in January. The Aurul gold