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A community blueprint maps out a future for one of Australia's leading coal mining regions and tackles one of the biggest landscape restoration challenges.

Residents of five small gold-mining villages in southern Peru’s Arequipa region are struggling to salvage their belongings after landslides caused by strong rains killed at least 12 people and dragged mud, water and rocks that turned precarious homes and other buildings into rubble

The decline of the coal industry means 17 mines in the New South Wales Hunter Valley will close over the next two decades. More than 130,000 hectares of mining land — nearly two-thirds of the valley floor between Broke and Muswellbrook — will become available for new uses.

Post mining voids covering an area the size of Sydney Harbour could be the lasting environmental legacy of coal mining in the Hunter, a new report has warned.

Deputy Premier Paul Toole refuses to reveal how much revenue the state will lose from the mining royalty rate freeze, but says he's "confident" the announcement will not affect the budget.

The loss of a capsule of caesium-137, measuring 6mm by 8mm, dominated the news late last month. The capsule was found in the Western Australian outback on February 1, but in terms of losing radioactive material, we have been here before.

Illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis on Brazil's largest indigenous reservation are asking authorities to help them leave, one of their leaders and a Brazilian senator said on Monday.

Mergers and acquisitions are off to a hot start in February as major gold miners and public storage REITs propose $28 billion in deals.

Company rebuts claims by scientists that ‘uncontrolled and unscientific’ practices highlight dangers of going ahead with seabed mining

The Penryn-based mining company is looking to demonstrate commercial capability of lithium production in Cornwall for potential use in products such as batteries for electric vehicles

Hundreds of demonstrators from India’s main opposition party have gathered in New Delhi and other cities to demand regulators investigate allegations of fraud and stock manipulation by India's second-biggest conglomerate, headed by coal mining tycoon Gautam Adani