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Silver Pushes Past Gold This Year, These Stocks Will Capitalize

Three companies focusing primarily on silver mining may appeal to investors looking to capitalize on the metal's strong performance in 2025.

MarketBeat · Mar 10, 2025

Orla is Golden

Summary Orla Mining (ORLA) shows strong technical buy signals, with a 101.60% gain in the last year and a Trend Seeker buy signal since 2/26. The company owns significant mining projects in Mexico, Panama, Nevada, and Canada, exploring for gold, silver, zinc, lead, and copper. Fundamental factors include a market...

Barchart · Mar 10, 2025

Moving graves and people for coal mines: the devastating costs of mining in South Africa

About 80% of South Africa’s electricity still comes from burning coal. The country’s 108 coal mines have resulted in many communities being forced off their land from the 1970s to date. They have not only lost their homes and land, but have suffered the trauma of their ancestral graves being…

The Conversation · Mar 9, 2025

Philippines' Palawan Approves 50-year Ban On New Mining Permits

The local government in a resource-rich Philippine province has unanimously voted in favour of a 50-year ban on new mining permits, a decision its supporters said cannot be overridden by Manila.

International Business Times · Mar 6, 2025

In El Salvador, A River Without Fish Feeds Fear Of Mining

El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. In the community of Santa Rosa de Lima, a two-hour drive from the capital San Salvador, wastewater still flows directly into the San Sebastian river from a nearby hill where a gold mine operated for 100 years until 2006.

International Business Times · Mar 6, 2025

How sand mining is eroding rivers, livelihoods and cultures

Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while high-purity silica sand is essential for making the silicon chips that power our digital devices.

The Conversation · Mar 5, 2025

Zambia government’s neglect exposing more children to lead poison, HRW says

Report says more than 95 percent of children in the central town of Kabwe had elevated levels of lead in their blood.

Al Jazeera · Mar 5, 2025

Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws

Guardian analysis finds fossil-fuel and mining firms have won $92bn of public money from states, with a growing number of cases backed by financial speculators

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2025

Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11bn

The island is being sued by a mining company over its decision, and faces paying nine times its annual budget in damages if it loses

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2025

Africa’s ‘sleeping’ language, |xam, has been written in stone at Oxford university

A response to the legacy of the imperialist and mining magnate Cecil John Rhodes is being written into the fabric of the refurbished Rhodes House at the University of Oxford in the UK.

The Conversation · Mar 4, 2025