Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent years, leaving devastated landscapes behind. Small-scale—and usually illegal—mining operations dredge the mineral from subsoil or river ...

The Ministry of Mines has officially granted a mining license to Vadhavan Port Project Ltd. (VPPL) for dredging sand from an offshore site to facilitate the development of the deep-draft ...

WCP A will start its transition from its current mine path, in Namalope, where it has mined for 17 years, to Nataka, in late ...

The Minister for Defence, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, has announced a major government initiative to dredge rivers heavily silted ...

In a decisive move to combat the environmental damage caused by illegal mining, Defence Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah last ...

(CN) — Three Alaska Native tribes are challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ recent approval of a gold mining project that would bring industrial suction dredging — a mining technique used to ...

RESIDENTS, conservation groups and marine scientists have called for a “pause” in sand mining operations at the Hy-tec quarry ...

MASSIVE dredging operations at the Cagayan River have disrupted marine life causing a sharp decline in fish catch, fishermen complained. Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas ...

OLYMPIA, Wash.— Gov. Jay Inslee has signed into law a bill prohibiting suction dredge mining in rivers and streams that provide important habitat for endangered salmon, steelhead and bull trout. The ...