Mining

Damning Indian government report says British-owned mining company’s plans should be blocked, as two local tribal campaigners are abducted

Campaign groups on the verge of leaving international diamond trade body because of failures to prevent military takeovers of mines, worker deaths and systematic smuggling

While logging and deforestation has gained global attention the growing sand mining sector is being largely ignored. Fuelled by Singapore’s land and construction demands it is wreaking environmental destruction across south-east Asia

A group of campaigners from Alaska have stepped up their campaign against plans to build one of the world’s largest goldmines by buying shares in Anglo American

The Church of England has dealt a significant blow to Vedanta Resources plc by pulling £3.75 million worth of investments from the company on ethical grounds

A landmark ban in Hungary on the use of cyanide in mining looks set to make huge improvements in public health. Now the country's neighbours need to follow her lead...

Archbishop questions Church's investment in mining firm that plans to build on site revered by indigenous tribe

Mining company unable to provide any evidence as government agency rules they ignored rights of indigenous people

Governments and companies making no effort to quantify the real climate impacts

Copper underwires the modern world, running through everything from the gas guzzler to the wind turbine. Any country that finds substantial reserves of the metal ought to consider itself to have struck gold. That is, until you let the World Bank decide how your mines should be run…

Greenpeace activists block Shell's tar sands oil extraction operation in protest at its environmental cost

Official admits government cut off water supply to force Bushmen out of the Central Kalahri Game Reserve

Government-owned Royal Mint admits it has no ethical sourcing policy

Fighting a mine funded by foreign investment in Gabon has seen Marc Ona Essangui spend time in prison, but his only response, he says, is 'serenity'

Alaska's long-standing wild salmon-fishing industry could be under threat from large-scale mining development