Mining
An Entire Swedish Town Is Moving Because the Ground Is Caving In
Cracks are reaching up toward the arctic mining town's center, caused by the continued expansion of excavation.
Inside the Mining Convention Where Industry Toasts Its Disastrous Growth
I, a lifelong environmentalist, attended Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada 2020 to learn how the industry is grappling with climate change.
First Lawsuit of Its Kind Accuses Big Tech of Profiting From Child Labor in Cobalt Mines
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dell, and Tesla are being sued over their alleged reliance on cobalt mined by children.
Tibetans in India Join the Global Climate Strikes to Bring Attention to Their Burning Homeland
The community lives with the prospect of losing their homes forever, not just to political oppression but also the severe effects of climate change.
A Chinese Mine Painted its Rocks Green to Look Like Trees
Managers hoped a bit of spray paint would trick authorities into thinking they were meeting environmental requirements. It didn't work.
Barrick Gold has been hit with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit
The Canadian gold mining company has been plagued for years by allegations of human rights violations and environmental destruction at its mine in Papua New Guinea.
How Australian Mining Boomed—Until Cheap Laziness Caught Up
In an extract from the book "Boom and Bust," VICE regular Royce Kurmelovs examines the way that greed, irresponsibility, and failing to learn from the past brought down the mining boom.
Alaska initiative to protect wild salmon could kill off a massive open-pit mine
Proposition 1 would protect rivers the salmon need to spawn but the oil, gas, and mining industries say it would make new projects a "deal killer."
Some of the Biggest Gold Nuggets Ever are Being Found in WA Right Now
One rock weighed 95 kilos and took three men to lift into the back of a ute.
The battle over gold buried in a Colombian mountain
The town of Marmato is at the centre of an international legal battle with a Canadian-owned mining firm.
Steam Pulled an Indie Game Accused of Being an Elaborate Cryptocurrency Mining Scam
Steam game 'Abstractism' was pulled from the marketplace after users complained that it was hijacking their computers to mine cryptocurrency, and that the game developers were scamming players with in-game assets.
This Australian Ghost Town Might Be Killing People
2000 deaths isn’t enough to stop Wittenoom emerging as a problematic tourist hot spot.