CROW AGENCY, Mont. — Every few hours trains packed with coal pass through the sagebrush-covered landscape here in southern Montana, some on their way north to Canadian ports for shipment to Japan and ... Read more
DAKAR, Senegal — The lucky ones have hidden out on cocoa farms and in Chinese-owned companies, surviving on yams and water, moving about constantly and trembling at the prospect of being discovered by ... Read more
BEIJING — The authorities in the West African nation of Ghana have conducted sweeping arrests of Chinese citizens in the country’s gold mining regions, prompting Chinese officials to say Thursday ... Read more
DAKAR, Senegal — Two groups of suicide bombers rammed vehicles full of explosives into a military base and a French-owned uranium mine 150 miles away in the West African desert nation of Niger early ... Read more
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Indonesian government and a United States-based mining company will appoint an independent team to investigate the collapse of a training tunnel last week near the company’s ... Read more
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Indonesian government and the United States-based mining company Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. will appoint an independent team to investigate the collapse of a training ... Read more
South African workers at the world’s No. 3 platinum producer, Lonmin, began a wildcat strike on Tuesday, halting all mine operations and prompting fears of a return to the violence that rocked the ... Read more
More than 60 miners were killed this week in the Darfur region when the gold mine they were working in collapsed, a police spokesman said Thursday. The mine in the Jebel Amir area of North Darfur had ... Read more
WHITWELL, England — The old miner walks with a stick now, depleted in body and spirit, but with a pool of resentment that still surges whenever talk turns to the losing battle nearly 30 years ago to save ... Read more
WHITWELL, England — The old miner walks with a stick now, depleted in body and spirit, but with a pool of resentment that still surges whenever talk turns to the losing battle nearly 30 years ago to save ... Read more