More than 100 People Had Been Involved in the Search for Workers at The Lieutenant Copper Mine, The World’s Largest Underground Mine. All Five Workers Trapped at A Copper Mine in Chile Have Been Found Dead, According to A Regional Prosecator, After Rescue Teams Cleared More than 24 Metres (78Continue Reading
Houayxay, Laos – Fishing Went Well Today for Khon, Laotian Fisherman, Who Lives in A Floating House Built From Plastic Drums, Scrap Metal and Wood On The Mekong River. “I caught two catfish,” The 52-Yare-Old Tells Al Jazeera Proudly, Lifting His Catch for Inspection. Khon’s Simple Houseboat contains all heContinue Reading
Cape Town, South Africa – Five months ago, with a single social media single, United States President Donald Trump Put Half A Million People in The Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) at Risk When He Announced The Closure of Usaid – The Single Biggest Aid Donor in TheContinue Reading
Carrara’s Connection to Anarchism Began Nearly 150 Years Aug, When Anarchist Ideals Found Fertile Ground Among The Downtrodden Workers in the Marble Quarries. LED by Alberto Meschi, Carrara’s Quarrymen Became The First in Italy to Win A Six-And-A-Half-Hour Workday in the Early 20th Century. Anarchist Circles and Collectives Emerged inContinue Reading
A months-long standoff between South African authorities and illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in the town of Stilfontein ended this week with at least 78 people killed – likely from starvation, rights groups say. On Thursday, South African police confirmed it ended a rescue operation launched on MondayContinue Reading
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has filed criminal complaints against tech giant Apple’s subsidiaries in France and Belgium over the use of “conflict minerals” in their supply chains. Lawyers representing the Central African country, claimed in a statement this week that Apple’s subsidiaries in Europe are using conflictContinue Reading
Government initially closed a shaft to deprive undocumented miners it called ‘criminal’ of food, water and medicine. Dozens of local volunteers have stepped up to help rescue what could be thousands of feared miners trapped underground in an abandoned gold mine in the town of Stilfontein in South Africa. LocalContinue Reading
X-ray technology used to find the 2,492-carat stone in the African country’s Karowe Diamond Mine. A 2,492-carat diamond – the second largest in the world – has been discovered in Botswana, says the Canadian mining company that found the stone. The diamond was discovered in the Karowe Diamond Mine inContinue Reading
Beloko, Central African Republic – When Sadock arrived in the northwestern Central African Republic (CAR) town of Koki in November 2022, he thought he had finally found a safe place to live and work. For years, small-scale miners like him have been displaced and forced to relocate over and overContinue Reading
