British firm Hargreaves Services Plc is to stop mining a site in South Yorkshire, putting at risk 500 jobs - @Reuters

Ghana arrests 161 Chinese citizens over illegal mining - @AJELive

Impala Platinum says workers at shaft 14 in South Africa on illegal strike; refusing to go underground - @Reuters

Operations at a US-owned mine in Indonesia suspended after government orders halt to production following fatal tunnel collapse - @BBCNews

Update: Unionist shot dead at Lonmin's platinum mine in South Africa, National Union of Mineworkers says - @BBCNews

More: Johannesburg-listed shares of Lonmin drop nearly 6% after shooting at mine in South Africa - @Reuters

2 people shot at South Africa's Lonmin mine; 1 dead, other taken to hospital, police say - @Reuters

Union member shot dead at restive Lonmin mine in South Africa, union says - @Reuters

Indonesian government tells accident-hit Freeport mine it can't resume production yet - @Reuters

Kyrgyzstan authorities arrest dozens of protesters who seized an electricity station and cut off power to a Canadian-owned gold mine - @AFP

Hundreds protest $5 billion gold mine in standoff with police in northern Peru - @Reuters

British firm Hargreaves Services Plc is to stop mining a site in South Yorkshire, putting at risk 500 jobs - @Reuters

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Impala Platinum says workers at shaft 14 in South Africa on illegal strike; refusing to go underground - @Reuters

More: Johannesburg-listed shares of Lonmin drop nearly 6% after shooting at mine in South Africa - @Reuters

2 people shot at South Africa's Lonmin mine; 1 dead, other taken to hospital, police say - @Reuters

Union member shot dead at restive Lonmin mine in South Africa, union says - @Reuters