Spain is aiming to tap its unexplored strategic mining resources as the European Union urgently seeks to ramp up production, ...

Navigating a makeshift raft between drifting furniture and submerged cars, Rafael Quispe steers through his village in ...

Potosí, a city in the Bolivian Andes, was once one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Today, it grapples with the ...

Bolivia's 2024 lithium deals face parliamentary delays over transparency, environmental, and economic concerns.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday announced a slew of measures aimed at boosting his country's defence, including a possible exit from a landmark anti-mines treaty and large-scale ...

Communities and ecosystems across the globe face heavy environmental damage from intensifying mining operations. A people’s ...

PARIS, France — The vast autonomous Danish territory of Greenland, coveted by US President Donald Trump, is believed to hold untapped mineral and oil reserves, but on a global scale these amounts are ...

The Bolivian mining city of Potosí is the only place in the world where members of the public can legally buy dynamite. “For the miners, the most essential thing is dynamite,” says Jhonny Condori, a ...

The Bolivian mining city of Potosí is the only place in the world where members of the public can legally buy dynamite. “For the miners, the most essential thing is dynamite,” says Jhonny ...

Officers said the bus rolled some 500m (1,640ft) down a ravine after the collision on Monday, which took place on the highway between Oruro, in the Bolivian Altiplano, and the highland mining city ...

It is located 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) below ground in Boulby Mine, a working polyhalite and salt mine – at that depth, the background from cosmic rays is one million times smaller.