Deep in the Siberian wilderness sits the world’s largest diamond ... become one of the most productive diamond mines in the world. Focusing on open-pit mining, it has left a massive open hole ...

People have always been obsessed with diamonds with many on the quest to find the biggest and ... name since the mine became fully operational in 1982. Jwaneng is an open-pit mine, formed around ...

Rio Tinto’s Kennecott mine, just west of Salt Lake City, is the largest open-pit mine in the world, spanning 2.5 miles across and about 4,000 feet deep. At more than 120 years old, the mine has ...

Indonesia Gold Mines: Muslim countries are among some of the wealthiest in the world, primarily due to ... Earlier, the Grasberg mine was reliant on open-pit mining, but has now shifted to low ...

About 200 activists demonstrated this Sunday in the capital of Panama against the possible reopening of the largest open-pit mine in Central America, owned by a Canadian company, which was shut down ...

Plans for a massive open-pit mine threaten wild salmon and bears at two of ... of the Kvichak and Nushagak Rivers that flow into Bristol Bay, home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run. Wild ...