Mining

Just as a leech draws blood from its host, senior executives at Iran’s largest steel company sucked the country’s mining...

French financial prosecutors are investigating former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš on suspicion of money laundering in...

Kazakh authorities arrested 23 people suspected of being members of a gang that used threats and blackmail to force IT...

Brazilian authorities are doing little to tackle the network of environmental crimes, largely to blame for the degradation...

Madagascar authorities have suspended four illegal gold mining operations that were run by Chinese nationals on the Kamoro...

Hundreds of South Africa’s abandoned coal mines pose a deadly risk to local communities and threaten to pollute the water of...

Brazilian federal police launched an operation last week against a criminal gang that used crypto tokens to launder money...

Gold smuggling, organized by individuals linked to the ruling establishment, deprives Zimbabwe of an estimated 36 tonnes of...

Dozens were arrested and hundreds of illegally trafficked weapons recovered in a cross border operation aimed at clamping...

G7 nations announced this week a ban on all future Russian gold imports, in order to apply pressure to President Vladimir...

European countries have recently resumed imports of phosphate — a key ingredient in fertilizer — from Syria. The trade...

South Africa, the world’s largest chrome producer, loses around 10% of its annual production to illegal mining which has...