Europe

The Hemerdon Ball mine, renamed as Drakelands Mine in 2007 and believed to hold one of the world's largest tungsten and tin resources, is located in Devon, approximately seven miles north-east of Plymouth, UK. The historic mine was discovered...

Forty one members of the British Parliament have signed an early day motion that seeks to eliminate “slavery-like” working conditions in Eritrea’s mines, which they say it the main cause for over 5,000 people fleeing the country every month....

German equipment manufacturer Liebherr said this week the group’s overall turnover for this year is expected to be close to $11 billion (€8.87 billion), slightly below (1%) what achieved in 2013.   While the decline does not seem significant,...

Russian workers at Alrosa's Udachnaya diamond mine have found a strange red and green 30 mm rock containing over 30,000 tiny diamonds, which may yield valuable information about how the precious gems form in natural conditions.   While...

The European Union voted by a extremely narrow majority Wednesday against a proposed fuel quality directive that would have stigmatized as "dirty" all imports coming from Canadian oil producers, and which Ottawa has been fighting for over two years....

Mining entrepreneur Julian Malnic, the founder of world's first deep-sea miner Nautilus Minerals (TSX:NUS), is taking his knowledge and vision to a whole new level, literally. He has joined the board of Deep Space Industries (DSI), a privately-held U.S. company planning to mine...

GW4 Alliance has initiated a new research project that uses algae to harvest precious heavy metals and produce biofuel while cleaning up water at a Cornish tin mine. GW4 consists of South West and Wales' research-intensive universities, Bath,...