You are here: Homepage Tag Raw materials Articles Peruvians at Laguna Azul Photo: Eva Tempelmann Raw materials | Peru You can’t drink gold In the Andes, water is a scarce resource. But gold mines in the region require enormous amounts of water and pollute their environment. Their owners do not seem to care By Máxima Acuña de Chaupe 07/01/2022 Underground graffiti artwork Photo: Will Hunt Life underground The dark zone We know only a fraction of what lies beneath our feet. Yet we are more closely connected to the depths than we realise By Will Hunt 01/07/2022 Workers drilling in search of gold Photo: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online / laif Life underground | South Africa Digging for gold: “The anxiety is always there” Four kilometres below the earth’s surface lies the deepest mine in the world. A worker tells of his day-to-day life in South Africa’s Mponeng gold mine By Luthando Mampintsha 01/07/2022 The Bolivian government wants to drive forward the country's industrialization by mining lithium, as here in the Uyuni salt desert, and producing batteries from this valuable metal Photo: Getty Images Survey | Bolivia 72% of Bolivians want to nationalise lithium production A majority of Bolivians support the government’s plan to take control of lithium production. But the plan has yet to bear fruit By Adrián Alarcón Sosa 10/01/2021 Environment | Norway Talk of the town in Troms and Finnmark In the north of Norway, citizens are protesting against a planned copper mine By Victoria Sundt Garder 10/01/2021
Peruvians at Laguna Azul Photo: Eva Tempelmann Raw materials | Peru You can’t drink gold In the Andes, water is a scarce resource. But gold mines in the region require enormous amounts of water and pollute their environment. Their owners do not seem to care By Máxima Acuña de Chaupe 07/01/2022
Underground graffiti artwork Photo: Will Hunt Life underground The dark zone We know only a fraction of what lies beneath our feet. Yet we are more closely connected to the depths than we realise By Will Hunt 01/07/2022
Workers drilling in search of gold Photo: Graeme Williams / South Photos / Africa Media Online / laif Life underground | South Africa Digging for gold: “The anxiety is always there” Four kilometres below the earth’s surface lies the deepest mine in the world. A worker tells of his day-to-day life in South Africa’s Mponeng gold mine By Luthando Mampintsha 01/07/2022
The Bolivian government wants to drive forward the country's industrialization by mining lithium, as here in the Uyuni salt desert, and producing batteries from this valuable metal Photo: Getty Images Survey | Bolivia 72% of Bolivians want to nationalise lithium production A majority of Bolivians support the government’s plan to take control of lithium production. But the plan has yet to bear fruit By Adrián Alarcón Sosa 10/01/2021
Environment | Norway Talk of the town in Troms and Finnmark In the north of Norway, citizens are protesting against a planned copper mine By Victoria Sundt Garder 10/01/2021
