Mining

Six so-called jade scavengers died Sunday after a 150-foot cliff wall collapsed at a mine in Myanmar’s northern Kachin...

Conceived in 2009 by someone operating under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin was the world’s first cryptocurrency....

American luxury jewelry retailer Tiffany announced Wednesday that it will begin disclosing the origins of its diamonds as...

Apple announced that it will begin helping human trafficking survivors get jobs at its stores, the Thomson Reuters...

The US Department of Justice is seeking documents from the world’s largest commodities trader, Glencore, over intermediary...

An associate with close ties to the Indian-South African Gupta family is set to testify at the family’s naturalization...

Malta’s smugglers are creative in plying their trade, and international authorities are working hard to keep up. The ports...

New eyewitness reports say that the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an armed insurgent group in Myanmar, is...

Environmental crimes are now the biggest source of funding for non-state militias and terrorist organizations, bringing in...

Over a third of Ukrainians are being asked for bribes annually, and their government is losing up to US$880 million each...

A federal jury found the former owner of a marble mining company in Afghanistan guilty of defrauding a US. government agency...

Police in Hyderabad, India, arrested two men Tuesday for the theft of a 4-kilogram diamond-studded gold lunchbox, saying...