In Zambia's Kabwe region, up to 200,000 people face devastating health consequences from decades of lead pollution, with 95% ...

Barrick Gold Inc. was penalized for repeatedly discharging toxic mine waste into a stream that feeds the Similkameen River.

Barrick Gold (NYSE: GOLD) (TSX: ABX) has been hit with a C$114,750 ($79,800) fine for its repeated, excessive discharge of ...

Cobalt is essential to both human and animal life but is toxic at high concentrations ... find ways to reduce the amount of cobalt in the mine tailings for years, but has been hindered by a ...

Liquid waste from the mine 32 kilometres west of Penticton was dumped into into Hedley ... according to the director of the ...

Environmentalists say the new Trump executive order that could boost mining threatens the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

He said falling cobalt prices, increased costs, and higher taxes had dented the mine’s economic viability. However, since then significantly higher cobalt prices have made costs and taxes less ...

The company claimed the cobalt released in the mine waste appeared to be less toxic than other forms of "free cobalt." In toxicity tests, Barrick said the highest cobalt concentrations in the ...

Both cobalt-copper mines are located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. American mining giant Freeport-McMoRan sold its stake in the Tenke Fungurume Mine to CMOC Group – then known as China ...

The leak follows a much larger one reported by the territory earlier this winter, in which about 19 million litres of toxic water escaped from a containment pond at the mine site and leaked over ...