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Chile's constitutional assembly rejects major mining overhaul

A constitutional assembly in the world's top-copper producing nation on Saturday rejected a major overhaul to mining rights, including expanding Chilean state ownership.

Reuters · May 14, 2022

Tocvan Closes Unit Private Placement

Calgary, Alberta – TheNewswire - May 9, 2022 – Tocvan Ventures Corp. (the "Company") (CSE:TOC); (OTC:TCVNF); (WKN:TV3/A2PE64), is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement of units ("Units") for gross proceeds of $346,200 (the "Offering"). The Offering consisted of the issuance of an aggregate…

Benzinga · May 14, 2022

Andhra Pradesh: Check sand mining from Arani river bed, TDP urges Mines Minister

‘The illegal activity, besides posing a threat of flash floods, is causing a dent in State revenue’

The Hindu · May 14, 2022

Peru community wants its land back, threatening Chinese copper mine

The community of Fuerabamba in the Andean region of Peru was resettled eight years ago to make way for a giant Chinese-owned copper mine, in a $1.2 billion scheme billed as a model solution to protests dogging the South American nation's mining sector.

Reuters · May 12, 2022

NFT scams, toxic ‘mines’ and lost life savings: the cryptocurrency dream is fading fast

It was supposed to be a financial revolution. Instead, crypto has become an environmentally disastrous gift to con artists, says academic David A Banks

The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2022

Inside the heroic Amazon tribe who took on monster diggers tearing up rainforest

Reporters joined the Shuar Arutam people on patrol to learn how they are using technology to protect the jungle from deforestation.

Daily Record · May 12, 2022

Jharkhand government suspends Mining Secretary Pooja Singhal arrested in money-laundering case

"The government has suspended Pooja Singhal with immediate effect under the provisions of All India Services (Discipline and Appeal Rules, 1969),” an official said

The Hindu · May 12, 2022

Enforcement Directorate attaches former Odisha MLA Jitu Patnaik’s assets worth ₹133 crore

Action comes over alleged illegal mining

The Hindu · May 12, 2022

Inside the heroic Amazon tribe who took on monster diggers ripping rainforest apart

EXCLUSIVE: The Mirror joined the Shuar Arutam people on patrol to learn how they are using technology to protect the jungle from extractive activities such as oil, mining and logging

Daily Mirror · May 12, 2022

4 reasons why the Morrison government's forestry cash splash is bad policy

This federal election campaign has involved very little discussion of environmental or natural resource policies, other than mining. An exception is a A$220 million Morrison government pledge for the forestry industry.

The Conversation · May 12, 2022