Peru’s government is acknowledging for the first time the existence of large-scale informal mining of copper, warning that high prices could see the activity grow in the near future. The government is ...

Chinese company Liulin Senze Coal & Aluminum will start producing alumina from low-grade bauxite at its factory in Shanxi province in July thanks to a new technology developed in France, the ...

Alaska policymakers have recently been pitching companies on the state’s ample unsettled land and, potentially, the ability ...

Local farmers, working in small-scale operations, do much of the mining throughout the region. Mining activity in Khoan Thong and the surrounding mountains continues, though it is only a shadow of its ...