Until this reporting, the last known breach at a bauxite refinery occurred in Hungary in 2010. The failure of a red mud ...

A sacred site for Native Americans is on the verge of being destroyed for profit, and profit alone—just one more colonial ...

In a vast storage room at a nickel plant in Hachinohe, northern Japan, a group of men in suits and hard hats are squatting on the floor admiring a row of trays. One contains a jet-black, rubble-like ...

Acid mine drainage is a highly toxic pollutant created when sulfur-bearing ... is important as a way to pay for the process. Nickel and cobalt are also extracted. While rare-earth elements are ...

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.

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 ...

The company, though, had argued that this cobalt content is less toxic than free cobalt ... of treating effluent from the Nickel Plate mine site since placing it on care and maintenance in ...

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 ...

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 stream ...

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

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 ...