Illegal mining controversy leads to suspension of BRS members in the Assembly amid heated debates and calls for investigation.

In April 2025, Beijing imposed export controls on seven heavy rare earth elements. As a new licensing system took effect, ...

Mining plays a vital role in NZ's economy and is expanding, the party says, so approvals need to be easier and more efficient ...

Maros Sefcovic says the EU agreed with the US to further advance work on critical minerals.

The Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society, NMGS, have urged the Akwa Ibom State government to sustain the engagement of professionals in the mining and ...

Besides gold and the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela also produces diamonds, bauxite and rare earths such as coltan, crucial for a range of high-tech products.

In the wake of the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s, Congress responded by creating the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an emergency stockpile designed to protect the nation from foreign coercion and sudden ...

Kinshasa: At least nine people were killed and 12 others injured in a mine collapse in the Rubaya mining area of the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

Antique maps and other geological archives are at the heart of an increasingly ugly showdown between Belgium’s colonial museum and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The thing about Andrew Forrest – known universally and, one suspects, to his mild irritation, as “Twiggy” – is that he is the biggest believer in his own mythology. Not the rags-to-riches arc, though ...

For inhabitants of Kajola, Obafemi Owode Council of Ogun State, the presence of stone quarry companies has made life a living hell. For ...