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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reports were scant from the area in Hpakant, which is the center of the world’s biggest and most lucrative jade mining industry. It’s a region where sporadic fighting has broken out between ...

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

It said on Friday that UMW Engineering Services Ltd had bagged the contracts were from its three major customers in Myanmar involved in the jade mining industry in Hpakant 350km north of ...