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US environmental authorities made a rare move Friday to block a massive copper and gold mine in Alaska before it even gets under way, in a bid to protect wild salmon.

• 02 марта 2014, 12:23

Young, elderly and pregnant residents of a Australian town cloaked in smoke from a coal mine ablaze for three weeks were Friday urged to leave over mounting air quality concerns.

• 28 февраля 2014, 16:05

Two more people have been hospitalized at Kalachi village with sleep syndrome symptoms.

• 20 февраля 2014, 21:03

Tens of thousands of workers at the world's three top platinum producers were set to down tools Thursday in a pay strike that could have a devastating impact in Africa's largest economy.

• 23 января 2014, 15:17

Accidents in Chinese coal mines killed 1,049 people last year, down 24 percent from 2012, authorities said, reflecting both risks and improvements in the country's thriving and often under-regulated sector.

• 06 января 2014, 13:24

At the bottom of a dank salt mine in Colombia, a 200-strong film crew featuring Spanish actor Antonio Banderas is reconstructing the incredible tale of 33 miners buried alive for 69 days in Chile in 2010.

• 26 декабря 2013, 14:41

Barges loaded with mountains of coal glide down the polluted Mahakam River on Indonesian Borneo every few minutes. Viewed from above, they form a dotted black line as far as the eye can see, destined for power stations in China and India.

• 09 декабря 2013, 18:41

Resources giant Rio Tinto announced the US$1.02 billion sale of its stake in Australia's Clermont thermal coal mine Monday as it seeks to shore up its ailing bottom line.

• 29 октября 2013, 10:00

One of the disabled walked to the second floor of the building and cast a bottle of Molotov cocktail in the corridor soaking the carpet of the floor with the kerosene from the bottle. After that he put a match to it and started a fire.

• 17 октября 2013, 17:43

Thousands of people marched against a Canadian company's plans to open Europe's largest gold mine at Rosia Montana, in what has become one of the longest-running protests in post-communist Romania.

• 01 октября 2013, 10:05

Thousands of Romanians took to the streets on Sunday in a fourth week of protests against a Canadian company's plan to open Europe's largest gold mine in a picturesque Transylvanian village.

• 24 сентября 2013, 10:22

75 TM-57 military anti-tank mines have been discovered during construction of a hydraulic power station in Temirtau city.

• 04 сентября 2013, 18:27

Kazakhstan mulls buying two 10750E harbor minesweepers from Russia to use them at the Caspian Sea.

• 15 июля 2013, 18:47

The number of people killed when a gold mine in the Central African Republic collapsed at the weekend rose to 52.

• 27 июня 2013, 18:10

Parts of Kyrgyzstan were under curfew Saturday after clashes between security forces and protesters who want a Canadian-owned gold mine nationalised led the president to declare a state of emergency.

• 01 июня 2013, 12:32

Rescuers have recovered seven more bodies from a collapsed mine tunnel in eastern Indonesia, taking the accident's final toll to 28.

• 22 мая 2013, 16:10

Britain's Prince Harry broke hearts in Washington's corridors of power Thursday, showing more interest in landmines than in the excited fans who greeted him at the start of a week-long US visit.

• 10 мая 2013, 11:02

Kazakhstan company Visor Holding filed a $400 million claim against Kyrgyzstan government to the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

• 17 апреля 2013, 15:54

Iran, under global sanctions for its nuclear enrichment programme, on Tuesday launched a new uranium production facility and began operations in two extraction mines.

• 09 апреля 2013, 12:35

Since Haji Abdul Samad lost his leg in a minefield more than 20 years ago, he has unearthed at least 1,000 explosives and become one of Afghanistan's most experienced de-miners.

• 04 апреля 2013, 13:30