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

Turkey's environment minister said yesterday an Australian-owned firm had not proved that its plans to use cyanide to mine gold in western Turkey pose no public health threat. Eurogold Madencilik, a

Local activists protesting overland rights have lifted a siege of a 14-ton-a-year gold mine in Kalimantan, owned and operated by a Rio Tinto Ltd. unit, the company said. The agreement should allow