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Judge affirms stricter interpretation of federal mining law

Another judge has adopted a U.S. appellate court’s stricter interpretation of a century-and-a-half-old mining law in a new ruling that blocks a metals mine in Nevada

The Independent UK

Is This the Best Commodity Stock to Buy Right Now?

The mighty metal miner Rio Tinto Group (RIO) looks well-poised for substantial growth, driven by high demand amid increased focus on clean energy and decarbonization, growing strategic partnerships, and investments. Is this the time to invest in this commodity stock? Continue reading….

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Court throws out Bob Brown Foundation challenge to MMG mine lease

An environmental group has lost its latest court battle with a mining company that's planning to build a controversial new tailings dam in Tasmania's west.

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Hyundai urged to stop illegal miners using its machines in Amazon

Greenpeace report finds heavy machinery made by South Korean firm contributing to destruction of Brazilian rainforest

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: We can’t let Oak Flat get sold to mining companies

Imagine that a giant mining company announces plans to dig down deep beneath the Vatican to extract precious minerals, collapsing St. Peter’s Basilica into a cavernous pit. While this unlikely scenario would be met with near-universal outrage, it’s effectively what’s happening in southeastern Arizona, to almost no national scrutiny.

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Bob Brown lashes court mining lease ruling

The Bob Brown Foundation has lost a court challenge related to a contentious mining waste dam proposal in Tasmania.

AAP

If you thought things couldn't get stupider, someone just held a CO2 reader up to a PC to prove 'bitcoin mining has zero carbon emissions'

No, it's not April 1, it's just stupid.

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Texas paid Bitcoin company $175k an hour to stop using energy during fatal 2021 winter blackout

Computers at the Bitcoin mine were using enough electricty to power 6,500 homes

The Independent UK

Some states want to give you a constitutional right to a clean environment

New Mexico's budget relies heavily on oil and gas revenue, but the state also bears the scars of generations of mining and drilling. So when Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, a former law professor and current Democratic state senator, heard about the movement to add “green amendments” to state constitutions, it seemed…

Tribune News Service

Mining exploration on the rise in SA as demand grows for materials used in renewable energy technology

As mineral exploration in SA reaches an eight-year high, resources companies are scouring remote parts of the state for commodities needed for lower-emission steelmaking, renewable energy generation and batteries.

ABC News

Russian Official Claims 75% of Bakhmut Seized

The Russian-installed head of the Moscow-controlled part of Ukraine's Donetsk region said on Monday that Russian forces controlled more than 75% of the besieged city of Bakhmut. The battle for Bakhmut has been one of the bloodiest of the 13-month war, drawing comparisons with World War One due to massive…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Police arrest suspect in investigation of Guiana gendarme killing

Security forces in the South American overseas territory of French Guiana have arrested a man suspected of having killed a member of the gendarme police force, according to the local prosecutor's office.

Radio France Internationale

Environmental defenders reel from Mexico and Central America attacks

At least two dozen activists in Indigenous and rural areas murdered, disappeared and jailed in wave of attacks

The Guardian - US

Oman Offers 36 Investment Opportunities for $4 Bn

Oman Investment Authority (OIA) announced 36 investment opportunities worth about $4 billion and covering various industries. OIA’s Director General of Economic Diversification, Hisham bin Ahmed al-Sheedi, said these investment opportunities would potentially ensure better alignment and synergy between OIA and other government and private entities. Sheedi noted that the opportunities…

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Shock and ore: UK firms race to get in on electric car battery recycling act

A startup in Devon is among those who spy opportunity in the process of turning old power cells into valuable raw materials

ABC News

Surge in medicinal cannabis use creates growing problem for WA's mining industry

Tom has been prescribed cannabis to help him sleep, but the FIFO worker's former mining employer said he could not use it and keep working on their sites. He's not alone.

Daily Mirror

Fears jungle tribe could be made extinct by mining for electric car battery component

Members of the Hongana Manyawa tribe on Halmahera Island in Indonesia face extinction as a project to mine for an electric car battery component tears down part of the forest

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A crucial date for deep-sea mining in the Pacific is just around the corner, but is the world ready?

With applications set to open for companies to mine the depth of the Pacific ocean, leaders call for a suspension to the controversial practice.

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Evening Standard

OPINION - I am incandescent about plans to strip mine the precious ocean floor

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve stumbled across on the internet recently? Mine is the Wikipedia page about the time Australia declared war on emus. And lost.

ABC News

Mining giant Santos given approval to re-activate four coal seam gas wells in NSW

While the former NSW government was in caretaker mode, mining giant Santos was given approval to reactivate four wells in the NSW north west for coal seam gas exploration, but local farmers are vowing to fight the decision.

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Bacchus Resources withdraws gold mining exploration licence application area around Adelaide River

A gold mining exploration licence application for the township of Adelaide River, south of Darwin, has been withdrawn following community backlash.

Reuters

Brazil court backs crackdown on illegal gold mining in Amazon

A Supreme Court judge backed a government move to crack down on illegal gold mining in Brazil, suspending a legal practice of buyers accepting the origin of the precious metal with paper receipts based on the "good faith" of the seller.

The Week

Deep-sea mining: can it help solve our climate problems?

A growing controversy is swirling around deep-sea mining, which aims to extract valuable minerals from the ocean floor.

AAP

Glass smashed as thousands rally in union protests

Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union members have marched through the nation's major cities calling for change.

ABC News

Subsidence regularly occurs across NSW Hunter due to old underground coal mines

From the surface, you might never know much of Newcastle in New South Wales has been built on top of mines — some more than 100 years old.

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