The roughly 300,000 jade pickers who sift through the detritus left by larger mining operations are migrants whose lives are threatened by landslides, drug addiction and disease. Tying the ...

Getty Images Close proximity of Myanmar to the notorious Golden Triangle region has made cheap drugs readily available to miners According to advocacy group Global Witness, the jade mining ...

Myanmar's military has long been a major player in the jade industry, with close ties to giant mining conglomerates that mostly harvest from the jade-rich township of Hpakant. Hpakant township ...

At least 162 bodies have been found after a landslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar, officials say. Rescue work has continued all day for people still missing at the site in the ...

Jade has been an important material to humans ... The ethics of gemstone mining has made global news across all kind of ...

Myanmar's Kachin State is believed to hold up to 90% of the world's most valuable jade. Demand for it is growing in China, where the stone is considered sacred. But hunting for it is one of the ...

Social activists have complained that the profitability of jade mining has led businesses and the government to neglect enforcement of already very weak regulations in the jade mining industry.

Myanmar’s military and ethnic armies are waging a war for control over the country’s natural resources – and the enormous profits that come with them. History may seem to be repeating, but ...

In the landslide on Sunday in Hpakant, the center of the world’s largest and most lucrative jade mining district, earth and debris from several mines slid about 300 meters (1,000 feet ...

Jade mining was halted because of the conflict. Thousands of workers, however, went to the war zone in order to dig for illegal jade. It turned the region into a no-go area and the filmmaker Midi ...

CALGARY, AB / ACCESSWIRE / December 19, 2024 / Jade Leader Corp. (TSXV:JADE) ("Jade Leader" or "the Company") has been ...