Mining the heavy rare earths needed for clean technologies caused devastation in Asia. Miners in Brazil say they can extract ...

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination.

Brazil’s rare-earth ambitions are drawing US attention, but political and regulatory hurdles threaten progress.

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...

A Brazilian court is set to rule on the controversial Volta Grande gold mine project in the Amazon, operated by Canadian ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination in the bodies ...

Fleet expansion advances Pilar Gold's strategy to restart production and achieve an initial target of 40,000 ounces of ...

Brazil sees no need to create a state-run critical minerals company, Industry Minister Marcio Elias Rosa said Friday, pushing back on proposals for a state-backed entity. “There is no need whatsoever ...