Tin mining is big business in Indonesia . Here's why miners risk their lives for $13 a day. ... He spends hours searching the ocean floor for tin so he can feed his four children.

In December 2019, Apple was one of several tech companies accused of being complicit in the deaths of several children who died after working in mines in the DRC. The other defendants were Google ...

Indonesia has more crocodile attacks on humans than any other country in the world. In one of the country’s hotspots, illegal tin mining has fuelled the conflict.

Ironically, she now depends on her child’s tin mining income. Permits trigger protests. A 2018 inventory found just over 12,600 mining pits spread across 15.58 million hectares in all regions of the ...

JAKARTA: High-profile businessman Harvey Moeis, nicknamed Indonesia’s “perfect husband” by netizens, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison and a penalty of 210 billion rupiah (US$13 million ...

The regional government of Bangka-Belitung gained control of the tin mines after Indonesia democratised in 1998, and in 2001, citizens were given the right to mine.

Indonesia is the world's biggest producer of nickel and one of its largest producers of tin. Using SIMBARA, the government would be able to track the nickel and tin from mines to domestic smelters.

JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities are preparing data and assessing current industry conditions to be ready in the event that the government decides to bring in a ban on tin exports, a senior mining ...