At more than 1,100 metres deep, Chuquicamata is still the world’s largest open-pit copper mine. (Image courtesy of Codelco.) Chile’s Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, has extended mining ...

Large-scale, bulk open-pit gold deposits in tier-1 jurisdictions have historically formed the backbone of commercial mining ...

It's a hard burn from Perth. A nearly straight line due east, six hours and change across the hot flat of Western Australia. In the distance, over the horizon: gold. Or at least, the hope of gold, ...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, present ed before parliament a series of constitutional reforms among which there is a proposal to modify Article 27 so that it prohibits ...

The government of Honduras is no longer granting environmental permits for open-pit mining projects due to the deforestation and pollution they cause. Honduras has a poor human rights track record ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Duterte administration's decision to lift a four-year-old ban on open-pit mining is a "short-sighted" policy reversal that may lead to further degradation of the environment, ...

A couple of weeks ago, the Philippines lifted a four-year ban on open-pit mining. In doing so, it also re-opened the debate on the mining method’s perceived environmental impact and its promising ...