When the work is finished, the toxic stuff left behind often gets dumped in big piles or ponds. These processing and tailings storage sites can be among the most difficult parts of a mine to permit, ...

Punjab Lokpal Justice Vinod K Sharma (retired) has issued a show-cause notice to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) minister Barinder Kumar Goyal and Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) chairman Prof Dr Adarsh ...

SSR Mining (NASDAQ:SSRM) +1.3% pre-market Thursday after saying the February 2024 heap leach failure at its Çöpler gold mine in Turkey was caused by a design flaw in the third-party engineered ...

SSR Mining (Nasdaq, TSX: SSRM; ASX: SSR) says an independent review of last year’s heap leach failure at the Çöpler gold mine in eastern Turkey has revealed a third-party engineered design ...

The tailings dam would extend gold mining in the province. The Ministry of Environment has already given the environmental permission for the construction of the second tailings dam and the company ...

A Stormont department’s failure to notify the Irish government about transboundary issues relating to a gold mine has seen a public inquiry on the controversial planning application suspended.

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press/Rich Pedroncelli ...

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue ...

The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams have said. At least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have ...