Mining sector

Jesuits in Britain consider divesting from Rio Tinto over environmental concerns

Environmental groups have for years said that water downstream of Rio Tinto’s southern Madagascar mine contains high concentrations of uranium and lead, potentially endangering local residents.

Congo plans paramilitary unit for mines with US, UAE funding

Congo is the world’s second-biggest source of copper and largest producer of key battery mineral cobalt.

India strangles final bastion of Maoist revolt as mining opportunities loom

Security forces are strangling the final remnants of the revolt with a network of 450 fortified bases and surveillance hubs linked by roads driven deep into the dense forest.

Mining investors jittery about politics in Peru as vote count drags on, analysts say

FILE PHOTO: An automated truck is seen at Anglo American's Quellaveco copper mine in Peru, obtained by Reuters on April 26, 2024. Anglo American/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Turkey arrests 110 coal miners on hunger strike

Around 90 miners stage topless a sit-in protest outside Turkey's Energy Ministry, with a banner hanged on its fence reading "Let the goverment decide: Either declare us slaves, or grant us our rights", to demand unpaid wages in Ankara, on April 20, 2026. Hundreds of workers from Doruk Mining, members of the Independent Miners' Union, walked a 180-kilometre way in nine days to reach Ankara, calling on authorities to address what they described as months of delayed payments and unresolved compensation claims. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP)

Venezuela hopes to lure back international miners, but it's a risky business

FILE PHOTO: General view of the remains of a collapsed mine, known as Tomi, in El Callao in Venezuela's southern state of Bolivar August 24, 2010. The collapsed tunnel at the wildcat gold pit in south Venezuela killed at least six people, authorities said. Picture taken August 24, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Australia and US boost support for critical minerals with $4.5 billion

FILE PHOTO: Samples of rare earth minerals from left, Cerium oxide, Bastnasite, Neodymium oxide and Lanthanum carbonate are on display during a tour of Molycorp's Mountain Pass Rare Earth facility in Mountain Pass, California June 29, 2015. REUTERS/David Becker/File Photo

Toxic tide: Myanmar’s rare earth mining surge hurting livelihoods along Thailand’s Kok River

pwchiangrai - Fisherman Siam Kaewdam is among the local villagers found by university researchers to have higher-than-normal arsenic levels in his body.
ST PHOTO: PHILIP WEN

Venezuela’s Rodriguez announces ‘responsible increase’ to wages from May

FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez speaks as she meets with U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (not pictured), in Caracas, Venezuela, March 4, 2026. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo

Deforestation surge, El Nino raise fears of repeat of Indonesia’s 2015 haze crisis

This handout photo taken in Merauke regency, South Papua, on March 17, 2025 and released by Mighty Earth shows a deforested area that will be converted into a sugar cane plantation.

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