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A man was killed by assailants who also allegedly chopped off his right hand in Odisha's Nayagarh district on Monday in a dispute over illegal mining of laterite stone, police said. The deceased was ...

Even with the technology to make metal tools, people in Bronze Age Britain still used animal bone tools alongside metal ones to obtain copper, a practice spanning at least nine centuries between 3700 ...

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Gold mining presumed to be illegal caused 6,000 hectares (more than 14,800 acres) of deforestation in Amazonian protected areas and Indigenous territories during the last three months of 2025, ...

Lawyers for some of the nation’s wealthiest families returned to court in a legal pursuit for millions of dollars after a WA Supreme Court ruled the Wright Prospecting (WPPL) and DFD Rhodes mining ...