The residents of Sanso and Anlo villages near Ashanti Goldfields Co's giant Obuasi gold mine say they will no longer put up with the mine's pollution and want to be resettled, the Ghana News Agency

A coalition of 21 environmental groups complained to President Clinton today that the U.S. administration was about to side with the coal industry and undercut a federal court decision that would

Steps by Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary Co. to extricate itself from its environmentally damaging Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea took a step backward with landowners

Southern African countries are preparing a joint position on the restriction of trade in so-called conflict diamonds, which finance many of Africa's long running civil wars, a regional official

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Plc hiked ints bid for Australia's North Ltd on Thursday to A$4.75 ($2.*)) a share, raising the stakes in its battle with Anglo American Plc for North's iron

The Australian government launched an investigation into the leak of manganese-tainted water at a uranium mine adjacent to the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park. It is the third

More than 12 drinking water and irrigation projects of the Irrigation and Public Health Department on the Markanda river bed being implemented with the cost of crores of rupees are facing hard time

India has tested a crawler-mounted mobile seabed mining system that can go up to 400 metre deep as part of its ambitious programme to scour the depths of the oceans to extract strategically and

Three environmental disasters have raised questions about how diligently Australian mining houses are managing hazardous operations offshore. One Australian company has been accused of polluting the

A second Australian gold mining company has been involved in a cyanide spill accident in as many months, this time in Papua New Guinea. Dome Resources said yesterday it was close to completing a