In Serbian village, women fight to escape encroaching mine | Mining

In Serbian village, women fight to escape encroaching mine | Mining

Before dawn, 78-year-old Vukosava Radivojevic prepared breakfast for her husband and then walked to guard a barricade in her village in eastern Serbia to stop trucks from entering an open-pit copper mine that residents say is contaminating the land and water. Radivojevic is among two dozen women who, since January,…

Chocolate prices to keep rising as West Africa’s cocoa crisis deepens | Agriculture News

Chocolate prices to keep rising as West Africa’s cocoa crisis deepens | Agriculture News

Long the world’s undisputed cocoa powerhouses, accounting for more than 60 percent of global supply, Ghana and its West African neighbour Ivory Coast are both facing catastrophic harvests this season. Expectations of shortages of cocoa beans – the raw material for chocolate – have seen New York cocoa futures more…

Twelve workers killed in Pakistan coal mine explosion | Mining News

Twelve workers killed in Pakistan coal mine explosion | Mining News

Unions point to hazardous working conditions as major cause of accidents in resource-rich Balochistan. At least 12 miners have been killed in a gas explosion at a coalpit in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan. The explosion at the private pit in Harnai, in the mining region of Khost, occurred late…

Surviving the white gold rush – life in South America’s ‘lithium triangle’ | Environment

Surviving the white gold rush – life in South America’s ‘lithium triangle’ | Environment

Calcha K, Bolivia – Teófila Cayo Calcina, 56, stands among her rows of quinoa plants, pointing towards the horizon. “The lithium plant is 50km in that direction. We are worried that the mining could leave us with not enough water to survive,” she says, clearly disheartened. Calcina lives with her…

More than 70 dead in artisanal mine collapse in Mali | Mining News

More than 70 dead in artisanal mine collapse in Mali | Mining News

Despite the dangers, small-scale unregulated mines continue to flourish and attract thousands of gold miners. More than 70 people have died in southwest Mali after an artisanal gold mine collapsed last week, officials have said, the latest disaster in a region prone to mining accidents. Karim Bethe, a senior National…

Landslide in small-scale mine leaves 22 dead in Tanzania | Mining News

Landslide in small-scale mine leaves 22 dead in Tanzania | Mining News

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan expressed ‘great sadness’ at the loss. Twenty-two people have been killed following a landslide at a small-scale mine in northern Tanzania, government officials said. The accident occurred at the Ng’alita mine in the Bariadi district of Simiyu region, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on…