The Indonesian government says they have suspended four nickel mining operations in one of the country’s top tourist ...

In a world hungry for crucial resources, China may not be poised to start deep-sea mining but it is planting seeds for such ...

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South African National Parks (SANParks) has shot down an “audacious” application by a phosphate mining company to mine inside the boundaries of the ecologically-sensitive West Coast National Park.

It is raising concerns about environmental safety. At the center of the controversy is a former phosphate mine in Dover. It is also home to a superfund site. Back in 2010, Hillsborough County ...

But thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean lies a tiny island that was once considered ... Its brief period of extraordinary wealth came from phosphate mining, with huge deposits discovered ...

DOVER, Fla — Two bills winding through Tallahassee would give legal protections to landowners of former phosphate mines. But critics, including homeowners near shuttered mines, fear it will ramp ...

Polymetallic sea nodules collected from a deep-sea mining expedition in the Indian Ocean ... Under German rule, phosphate was discovered and mined on the island at the beginning of the 20th ...

Citizenship of Nauru, an island nation spanning just 8 square miles in the southwest Pacific Ocean, can be yours ... Nauru ...

World’s Richest Island: We have witnessed ... It was discovered to have rich phosphate reserves in the early 1900s by a British company. Phosphate mining began in 1907 which went on for much ...

This picturesque island in Micronesia was once one of the wealthiest nations globally per capita thanks to an unexpected discovery. After gaining independence in 1968 Nauru took control of the ...

Nauru, a country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean ... of the phosphate mines, with riches flowing into the economy. A New York Times report from 1982 said by that point the island country ...