STORY: Footage released by the Bolivian government showed the moment officers stormed a dredger boat with miners and workers on it. The boats were then set alight to be destroyed. Authorities said the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illegal miner throws water at one of the more than 60 dredging barges that were set on fire by officers of the Brazilian ...

Mumbai: The police have destroyed the boats used for the illegal mining of sand in Vaitarna River following a raid over the weekend. Fibre boats used for sand mining were destroyed and sand was ...

Anglo American [JSE:AGL] will build a new diamond-mining boat to operate off the coast of Namibia, where it finds some of its most expensive stones, in the latest sign the company is willing to spend ...

The police drive against illegal sand mining in the district has apparently been hit owing to the absence of patrol boats and other necessary equipment to keep vigil on the rivers. "By the time we ...

The revenue department late on Monday noon also set on fire 45 fibre boats that were fitted with high-power suction pumps meant to dredge sand. Residents of Wadhiv-Varlipada had complained to the ...

Brazilian police said Monday they burned 131 boats used by gold miners in the heart of the Amazon, raising tensions in an isolated region rife with poverty and crime. Smoke has been wafting over the ...