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Freeport-McMoRan Inc.’s declaration of force majeure at its Grasberg mine in Indonesia — where two employees are dead and five missing after a massive mud flow — couldn’t have come at a worse time for ...

BEIJING, Dec 16 (Reuters) - China's emergencies ministry on Thursday said all coal-producing regions in the country should investigate cases of illegal mining after a push to produce more of the ...

More than 100 people have died in a landslide at an unofficial gold mine in southern Congo, according to local police on Sunday.A police officer said the accident occurred on Friday afternoon, at the ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's sprawling Antamina copper mine is slowly restarting operations, a source close to the company said on Thursday, after an accident earlier this week left an employee dead and ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Metals analysts are cutting their estimates of global copper supplies for this year and next after an accident at the giant Grasberg mine dramatically tightened the outlook for the ...

An elevator malfunction in the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine killed a tour guide and injured four others. Twelve adults were trapped for hours at the bottom of the mine during the incident. The mine has ...

Shares of copper miner Freeport McMoran rose early Tuesday after catching an upgrade. BofA is “sufficiently confident” that risks following September’s fatal mining accident are priced in.