Miners in Indonesia risk their lives every day by illegally diving up to 65 feet underwater with minimal equipment. Top-earning miners make about $13 a day. The tin they mine gets used in common ...

Cornwall’s last tin mine closed 20 years ago. Now growing demand for metals from ethical sources could spark a revival in one of Britain’s most deprived regions. Once the mining center of the world, ...

Floresta Nacional de Altamira (Flona de Altamira) spans some 724,965 hectares in the state of Pará, and is home to a rich diversity of plants and animals, including several species threatened with ...

Tin mining in one of the world’s main producers of the metal has sparked the latest in a series of conflicts between illegal miners and traditional fishers in Indonesia. The incident stemmed from a ...

Cornish Metals plans to commence tin mining in Cornwall's South Crofty in 2026. This mining will help address the potential global tin shortfall, causing a probable rise in tin price. Tin is a vital ...

When work began at the South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall, Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne, the first English settlement in America had only just been established, and the world’s trade with the ...

YANGON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - From a remote corner of northeastern Myanmar, an insurgent army sells tin ore to suppliers of some of the world's largest consumer companies. More than 500 companies, ...

BEIJING/HANOI, April 18 (Reuters) - A suspension of mining in Myanmar could lead to further tightening of global supplies of tin, China's Yunnan Tin 000960.SZ, the world's top refined tin producer, ...

A bid to restart tin mining in southwestern England, reviving an industry with roots in the Bronze Age, has won a $210 ...

UK-based Cornish Tin said it has raised over £2.2 million ($3 million) in its latest funding round to advance exploration at its key projects located across Cornwall in southwestern England. In a ...