Environmental critics of the world’s largest copper mine in ­Indonesia’s Papua region have launched a legal test case against the London Metal Exchange, warning it could be guilty of money laundering ...

Freeport-McMoRan owns stakes in 10 copper mines including three of the world’s largest: 49% of the Grasberg copper and gold operations in Indonesia, 55% of the Cerro Verde mine in Peru, and 72% of ...

We've already incurred the mining cost ... Kucing Liar development and the LNG project at Grasberg. The balance includes acceleration of tailings and other infrastructure to support the Bagdad ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – In a bid to help make mine tailings safer for people and the environment, a global institute has been launched in South Africa which has also been selected as ...

Forensic service workers carry bodies in blue body bags during a rescue operation to rescue miners from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Wednesday, Jan.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have ...

An underground metals mine in New South Wales has made efforts to plug a hole made during exploration drilling that accidentally breached the tailings of an abandoned mine. Workers were drilling ...

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South African police say there's nobody left in the mine after they removed 78 bodies and 246 survivors over the last two days. They declared the court-ordered rescue operation over on Wednesday ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...