iron ore
The Venezuelan Government Says It's Found 17 Missing Gold Miners in a Mass Grave
Locals say the miners were killed two weeks ago by a local gang leader seeking to control gold, iron ore, and coltan mining in the Tumeremo region. The authorities were initially reluctant to admit that anything had happened.
Why Did the Australian Sharemarket Lose So Much Money Tuesday?
Swiss mining giant Glencore lost a third of its value, stripping $56 billion AUD from the resource-depend Australian market.
How Chinese Mining Companies Sustain Organized Crime in Mexico
Miguel, a Mexican iron ore miner, told us Chinese and Korean companies are paying millions of dollars a month to the Knights Templar cartel.
On the Front Lines of Wisconsin's Big-Money, Small-Town Iron Mine War
We traveled to northern Wisconsin to check in on the bitter environmental, economic, and political battle raging over a proposed iron mine.
How Mexico's Cultish Cartel Got Big Into Iron Ore
What the pseudo-religious Knights Templar cartel earns pushing ditch weed is chump change compared to its mineral smuggling profits.
The Swedish Town Being Swallowed by the Earth
A long time ago, people in the arctic town of Kiruna were like, "Hey, let's mine a lot of iron ore!" Now they are like, "Uh oh, mining activity has led to a giant fissure opening up and threatening to swallow our homes!" This is bad.