In 2023, tensions escalated in Las Naves, Ecuador, where farmers clashed with police during protests against a new environmental consultation process and the upcoming launch of a large-scale open-pit ...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine environment minister said on Wednesday that a ban on new open pit mining in the country would remain in place, with President Rodrigo Duterte rejecting government ...

Canada Nickel’s Crawford project will likely be the one and only mine project ever permitted under the rules of the former ...

A strip ratio, or stripping ratio, is an important measurement related to the open-pit mining process. Put simply, the stripping ratio is the amount of waste material, also known as overburden, that ...