A new “cold rush” is mining northern mineral riches. Canada’s Giant Mine serves as a warning of the high and long-term cost of such expeditions.

A Canadian mining company has been hit ... expressed concerns in his assessment. "Cobalt is an essential element for human and animal life but is toxic in high concentrations," Bourgeois stated ...

In the middle of a trade war, Congo is trying to woo Trump’s White House without risking critical investment from Beijing.

In the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo's cobalt capital, southeastern Katanga Province, mining pollution is ... and community organizations, toxic pollution has caused deaths ...

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 ...

Why should we mine toxic, high-sulfide nickel in northern Minnesota ... the African Congo is also known to use poor practices and slave labor in its cobalt mines. The Congo supplies 74% of the ...

but environmentalists say mining for copper, cobalt, nickel and other metals in the forest would produce tailings that can be dangerous sources of toxic chemicals that would pollute the Rainy ...

China's CMOC Group , the world's top cobalt mining company, called on Democratic Republic of Congo last week to lift a ban on ...

The girl was diagnosed with lead poisoning last year ... Children do hazardous work in cobalt mining; Indigenous people’s rights have been violated for lithium mining; workers in manganese ...