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 ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Evidence abounds across Montana of the ruinous environmental legacy of cyanide-based open-pit ...

MANILA, June 23 (Reuters) - The incoming minister in charge of Philippine mining has slammed the use of open pits to extract minerals, describing it as "madness" even to consider the method in the ...