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"I'm not saying that we should be shutting mines tomorrow and kicking people out of jobs," he said, "(But) there's a lot more work that needs to be done."

Gina Rinehart’s mining company instead offers short-term funding until the organisation finds a new sponsor

In the second part of our Electric dreams series looking at the UK’s automotive battery industry, we visit an area whose industrial past is being revitalised

Democratic Republic of Congo has made progress in implementing transparency in its extractive mining sector but needs to do more in publishing contracts and revenues from the sector, a global anti-corruption body said.

'I didn’t know if Dad was there. I was taken out of school and told that he was in fact in the mine, and that he was one of those trapped.' - Alex Jenkins, then 13, now aged 24

The Albanese government has unveiled plans to subsidise mining projects for critical minerals like lithium to accelerate green industry.

A Peruvian community on Wednesday began a blockade of a key copper transport corridor, marking another episode of protests that have disrupted mining operations in the region.

With the EU committed to making electric vehicles widely available by 2035, the demand for metals required to produce batteries, particularly lithium, is expected to explode. The market is currently dominated by a handful of countries, but Europe wants to join the club by exploiting its subsoil.

Mining co-ops – with oversize influence in the government – are moving into the Amazon’s Madidi national park