In 2007, Freeport-McMoRan completed its acquisition of Phelps Dodge Corp, one of the most famous names in U.S. mining history ...

Seized assets are being placed under the control of a state-owned giant at the heart of a sprawling corruption scheme.

Illegal small-scale mining, popularly known as galamsey, remains one of Ghana rsquo;s most pressing environmental and ...

The Ghana Gold Board has defended the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Gold for Reserves (ASM G4R) programme, insisting that ...

This Saturday on Newsfile, we are taking you beyond the headlines, to the heart of two controversies shaping Ghana’s economic and environmental future: the Internatonal Monetary Fund (IMF) alarm over ...

At least three people were killed in a New Year's Eve attack on informal miners in Pataz district in northern Peru, local authorities and a mining firm said on Thursday, the latest in a series of ...

In a Thursday press conference, federal authorities in Minnesota announced new charges in the fraud scandal that has grabbed national headlines and spoke on the scope of the crisis, saying that it ...

The owner of a former bitcoin mining company in Philadelphia allegedly stole more than $48.5 million from investors in a scheme that promised "passive income" for supporters of the firm's ...

China’s recent relaxation of export controls on certain rare earth metals shouldn’t cause anyone to get complacent about future access to that country’s extensive stores of critical minerals. Another ...

HOWELL, Mich. (WXYZ) — Small businesses in downtown Howell are on high alert after a new wave of fake cash started hitting registers. Several shops have been ...

One small Indigenous territory is currently the site of roughly 70% of deforestation in Indigenous territories across the Brazilian Amazon due to illegal mining over the last two years, according to ...

Caleb Ward was getting married, and in the fall of 2022 went to Las Vegas for the wedding with Jeremy McNutt, with whom Ward had founded a bitcoin mining company that had a primary location in Fort ...