Mining binds one to the other. There is no empire without the frontier, and no capitalism without mining. Historically, this ...

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The Harita High Pressure Acid Leaching (HPAL) plant on Obi Island. Red soil in foreground is laterite (Photo: JATAM/ Rifki Anwar) Where genocide is the crime of violence aimed at the destruction of a ...

Far East Gold is one of just a few Australian mining companies still in Indonesia. It holds two prospects in Australia – both in Queensland – but four in Indonesia. Floated on the share market in ...

Being deep inside a limestone cave is a healing experience. I am in front, the leader, checking out the way forward. The others behind me are making their measurements. Should we continue? Pause? Go ...

This mountain at Sumberbening is scheduled to disappear under the gold mining plans of Far East Gold (Photo: Gerry van Klinken) The temperature drops as the road winds uphill. The air feels fresher ...

Indonesia and Australia are both on the frontline of new ‘green-extractivism’ – a boom in mining and processing the ‘energy transition minerals’ required for the global energy transition. Indonesia ...

The Limits to Growth report by the Club of Rome in 1972 shocked the world with a ‘business as usual’ graph projecting apocalyptic collapse some time in the 21 st century. An inability or refusal to ...