A scene at the Hpakant area of Kachin state in the north of Myanmar, where a mine mudlside buried 54 miners in April. The mud flowed down from a collapsed tailings dam. Hpakant, 950 km north of... 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week that single-use plastics, such as straws, will be banned from as early as 2021. As part of the crackdown, plastics manufacturers and... 

Peruvian president Martin Vizcarra is taking firm steps to eradicate illegal mining in this deforested area of the Amazon jungle, at La Pampa, Madre de Dios, in southeast Peru. Shown near abandoned... 

Government has given an assurance that South Arica’s carbon tax, implemented on June 1, has been designed not to raise revenue but to change the behaviour of plants such as AfriSam’s Dudfield... 

During his address at last month’s Minerals Council South Africa annual general meeting, re-elected Minerals Council president Mxolisi Mgojo praised the commitment of mining companies to solving... 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was re-elected to office in May with a landslide majority. Expectations are for Modi to push through land and labour reforms after his Bharatiya Janata Party... 

State electricity utility Eskom has the strange contradiction of over-staffing in some parts of it and under-staffing where the much-needed actual electricity generation takes place, Public... 

The Spectrum of the Seas cruise ship is the newest and largest ship operated by Royal Caribbean Cruises in Asia. Pictured above berthed at the Marina Bay Cruise Center in Singapore, the 170 000 t... 

A large excavator is seen operating in Germany’s Garzweiler opencast mining area, in front of the lignite-fired Frimmersdorf and Neurath power stations, owned by Rheinisch-Westfälisches... 

Visitors walk through the exhibition area at Grain SA's NAMPO Harvest Day in Bothaville, South Africa, earlier this month. The show is one of the southern hemisphere’s largest agricultural... 

Gemstone mining and marketing company Fura Gems is set on introducing modern mining to Coscuez, Colombia, where it is involved in emerald mining. Coscuez has yielded emeralds for more than 300... 

A grapple crane transports waste at the Entsorga West Virginia resource recovery facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in the US. The facility, launched earlier this year, recovers biomass,... 

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa examines platinum exploration core samples at a function where Cyprus-based Karo Resources, chaired by Loucas Pouroulis, updated its $4.2 billion platinum... 

Pictured above is a lettuce crop being grown at the YES Kago Green Engine hub, in Tembisa. The hub is the first of 100 planned for launch across the country under the aegis of the Youth Employment... 

Sasol has officially opened the R5.6-billion, 8.5-million-tonne-a-year Impumelelo Colliery in Mpumalanga, the last of its three replacement coal mines, following the opening of Shondoni and... 

South Africans go to the polls next week only days for the sixth national election held in the country’s democratic era. The 2019 poll comes at a time when many citizens have lost some enthusiasm... 

The use of hydrogen and platinum to combat climate change was emphasised at this month’s Platinum Group Metals Industry Day in Johannesburg, where Anglo American Platinum CEO Chris Griffith said... 

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa uses scissors to cut the ribbon at Japanese vehicle manufacturer Nissan’s factory in Rosslyn, in Tshwane, while Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, and Tshwane... 

A mineworker kisses the last piece of coal from the Franz Haniel shaft at a ceremony marking the closure of the last active black coal mine in Bottrop, Germany, a country which once thrived on the... 

Railway engineering company TMH Africa has restarted operations at a 45 000 m2 rolling-stock manufacturing facility, in Boksburg, Gauteng. The facility was acquired in 2018 from DCD Rolling Stock,... 

A mineworker toils inside the Novovolynska-9 coal mine, which is the focal point of a Ukrainian police investigation into a coal deal that some anti-corruption campaigners say resulted in... 

Swedish cleantech company Ripasso Energy has invested in a new power generation unit in South Africa that produces electricity using industrial residual gases. The plant has been constructed at... 

These solar panels are floating on a tailings dam at Anglo American’s Los Bronces copper mine on the outskirts of Santiago, in Chile. The first-of-a-kind solar island reflects the South African... 

Carbon emissions from fossil-fuel use rose to a record level in 2018 after energy demand grew at its fastest pace in a decade. The increase, which was reported by the International Energy Agency,... 

Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) has switched on its newly commissioned Bokamoso waste water management plant, near the company’s Waterval Smelter. The plant will process waste water from nearby... 

A 'sand fisher' prepares to collect sand from the Oubangui river for construction, at dawn in Bangui, Central African Republic earlier this month. A recent United Nations report pleaded for... 

This is ArcelorMittal’s opencast iron-ore mine in Kryvyi Rih, in Ukraine, where the company produces concentrate, lump and sinter feed. Mining is core to the growth strategy of ArcelorMittal, which... 

Volkswagen announced last week that it plans to build 22-million battery-powered vehicles over the next ten years, compared with an earlier goal of 15-million. The world’s largest automaker also... 

A 24.21 ct rough diamond on a scanner at Alrosa’s selling organisation in Russia, where sorting, valuation and sale of Alrosa diamonds is carried out. The United Selling Organisation employs 500... 

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on March 2 on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape... 

Conveyor belts process and separate different types of aggregate at the Butler Brothers Supplies aggregate mine in Victoria, British Columbia (BC), Canada, which has been providing aggregate and... 

It may have been in Barcelona, but it was neither at the hallowed Camp Nou stadium, nor was it football legend Lionel Messi. Instead, a gesture-controlled robot was photographed playing football at...