Mining
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
Assignment. China and the Two Iron Ladies of Burma. Audio, 25 minutes
Two farmer’s daughters in Burma object to the expansion of a Chinese backed copper mine.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Romania Gold Rush. Audio, 25 minutes
Tessa Dunlop investigates why a plan for a massive gold mine is dividing Romania.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- 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
Assignment. Peru's Gold Rush. Audio, 25 minutes
The gold rush in Peru that is threatening the Amazon rainforest.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Australia's Fly In Fly Out Workers. Audio, 25 minutes
Australia's mining boom can be lucrative for its FIFO workers but there's a price to pay.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- 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
Assignment. Stalin's Toxic Legacy in Georgia. Audio, 25 minutes
Dangerous levels of arsenic are polluting a community in Georgia - but who knows or cares?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- 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
One Planet. The metal that may save the world. Audio, 18 minutes
In search of a mineral that could solve the world's energy puzzle
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Congo's Blood Gold. Audio, 25 minutes
Has a senior Congolese general profited from the illegal takeover of a gold mine?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
One Planet. Richard Branson, uranium and algae. Audio, 28 minutes
Richard Branson tells us about clean fuels, the need for nuclear and a life changing bath
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
File on 4 Investigates. 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, 80 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
Science View. The Legacy of Abandoned Mines. Audio, 12 minutes
Subsidence, leaking gas and polluted water - the adverse impact of abandoned mines
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Sapphires from Madagascar. Audio, 31 minutes
The dreams, hopes and aspirations of the sapphire diggers at the Ilakaka sapphire mine
- 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