This city was built around a former prison where thousand of people died, and the life expectancy is 10 years lower than the ...

THE FERMANAGH public is being urged to have its say on the prospect of mining in our countryside, with the government considering granting yet more prospecting licences to an outside company to ...

Norilsk is said to be the coldest inhabited city on the face of the earth, and has been historically quite prosperous due to ...

Norilsk, Russia, the world's most depressing city ... The Gulags were forced labor camps where prisoners were made to mine nickel and other minerals in brutal conditions. Thousands of prisoners lost ...

Summers are short and mild, rarely exceeding 15°C. Norilsk is also one of Russia’s most polluted cities. Its mining and smelting industries release massive amounts of carbon pollutants, making it one ...

Of this 6 million, more than a third came from Norilsk Nickel — the Russian company that supposedly sits on the ... Before the palladium price ticker reaches your screen, mining companies dig over ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia should speed up plans to mine its deposits of lithium, a metal crucial for the production of high-capacity electric batteries, and other critical ...

Russia, like U.S. President Donald Trump, covets Ukraine's natural resources - and on the ground its forces are closing in on ...

Russian authorities have conducted a raid on illegal crypto mining after its national power supplier, Rossetti, announced ...

The Ukrainian Government has initiated steps to nationalise the Poltava mining and processing plant, a key asset of UK-based ...