Ecuador sees mining as a ‘crucial driver’ of the economy, providing jobs and incomes, but locals disagree.
Top growers in Ivory Coast and Ghana are facing catastrophic harvests, resulting in record-high cocoa prices.
Officials believe miners still alive as specialists drill through hundreds of metres of rock to establish contact.
Unions point to hazardous working conditions as major cause of accidents in resource-rich Balochistan province.
‘We won’t have electric cars,’ say local communities in South America ravaged by lithium mining for car batteries.
Video shows the moment part of an illegal gold mine collapsed in central Venezuela.
At least nine miners are feared to be buried under debris after a huge landslide hit a gold mine in Turkey.
Open-pit mines are planned for Portugal’s northern region, worrying locals who say their livelihoods are at risk.
Despite the dangers, small-scale unregulated mines continue to flourish and attract thousands of gold miners.
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan expressed ‘great sadness’ at the loss.
As the mineral-rich DR Congo prepares to vote for a new president this December, opponents are already crying foul.
Zambian authorities have said the yet to be identified survivor is being treated in hospital.
An unknown number of miners still remain trapped in the Zambian town of Chingola.
For weeks, Panama was shaken by its largest protest movement in decades as residents decried a mining contract.
