Environment / Mining
Articles about Mining, ordered by date. 
The downside to electric cars
They may be good for the environment, but not for those mining the cobalt needed to manufacture their batteries, writes Neil Thompson.
‘We are slowly being killed by this mine’
The British-Australian mine of Cerro Matoso has been linked to birth defects, pollution, poverty and paramilitary pay-offs. Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik investigates.
Coal’s hidden ‘double whammy’
Millions of hectares of forest are threatened by coal mining, warns Saskia Ozinga.
Under-mining Vedanta
A day of global protest marked mining giant Vedanta's annual general meeting. Samarendra Das and Miriam Rose report.
Sámi's diamond win
Ragnhild Freng Dale on a recent win and the ongoing fight for recognition.
Displaced by blood and fire
Jess Worth joins the Dirty Oil Tour to highlight human rights abuses by mining companies.
Mine shafted
Jess Worth on indigenous Canadians' fight against a mine.
Norwegian fjords at risk
Government plans could turn the fjords into a dumping ground for mining waste, reveals Tina Andersen.
View from the ridge
Jewellery designer Jane Theobald's meditation on the true price of the shiny stuff.
The myth of ethical gold
Certification schemes notwithstanding, clean gold is a bit of a scam, says Stephanie Boyd.
Churning up the cloud forest
Roxana Olivera on a Peruvian community's struggles to defend its rights against a mining corporation's dirty tricks.
Gold - the facts
Where does it come from? Who buys it? What do they do with it? What do they do with it? And the impacts of it.
Stop the gold rush
Richard Swift argues that our appetite for the shiny metal is both pointless and dangerous.
King coal runs amok
Alex Scrivener guides us through the coal-ravaged landscape of East Kalimantan.
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