Mining
Profile. Gina Rinehart. Audio, 13 minutes
Mark Coles profiles the controversial Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Open Country. Cornish Alps. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark visits Cornwall's clay country to see how mining has sculpted the landscape.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Open Country. The Purbeck Clay Mines. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark explores the clay mining history of Dorset's picturesque Isle of Purbeck.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Open Country. Dennis Potter and the Forest of Dean. Audio, 25 minutes
Felicity Evans visits the Forest of Dean, the landscape that author Dennis Potter loved.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Reunion. The Miners' Strike. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue MacGregor brings together some of those involved in the miners' strike of 1984-5.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Greenland: To Dig or Not to Dig? Audio, 29 minutes
Will mining harm the environment - or lead the country to independence?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Crossing Continents. Greenland: To dig or not to dig? Audio, 28 minutes
Will mining harm Greenland's environment, or lead the country to independence?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Indonesia's Mercury Menace. Audio, 29 minutes
How mercury poisoning is threatening the health of Indonesian gold-miners
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Crossing Continents. Indonesia's Mercury Menace. Audio, 28 minutes
How mercury poisoning is threatening the health of Indonesian gold miners.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Crossing Continents. Gold and Governance in Romania. Audio, 28 minutes
Tessa Dunlop investigates why a plan for a massive gold mine is dividing Romania.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Costing the Earth. Gold of the Conquistadors. Audio, 30 minutes
Mining is booming in South America. That's bad news for the environment.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Series 2, Johann Hari: Dying for a New Phone. Audio, 15 minutes
Johann Hari argues that our demand for gadgets has helped to drive the war in the Congo.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
File on 4. Illegal Gold Mining. Audio, 40 minutes
Jenny Cuffe reports from DR Congo on the scale of illegal gold mining.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Opal Dream. Video, 83 minutes
Australian-set drama from the maker of The Full Monty.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for over a year
Living Conditions. Mining. Audio, 13 minutes
Mining is one of the least sustainable human enterprises
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Works. Mining- Digging Deep. Audio, 24 minutes
Is economics driving companies to dig deeper? An examination of mining
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Block On Block. The Tunnel. Audio, 28 minutes
Going underground to see how tunnels are constructed
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Global Concerns. Pollution in the Andes. Audio, 14 minutes
Pollution and waste from the El Porco mine contaminated rivers when a dam disintegrated
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Global Concerns. The Antarctic. Audio, 14 minutes
Can one of the planet's last great wildernesses be kept clean for future generations?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Global Concerns. Impact of Commercial Mining on the Environment. Audio, 14 minutes
How has the rapid expansion of mining companies happened?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Global Concerns. China's Industrialisation. Audio, 14 minutes
The conflict for land for industry and land for food around Shanghai
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Global Concerns. Gold Mining in the Amazon. Audio, 14 minutes
How using mercury to mine gold is affecting the people and wildlife of the Amazon basin
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year