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Olympic Dam expansion crucial to BHP Strategy
BHP Billton awaits approval for expansion plans to it flagship Olympic Dam mine. China's nuclear programme will be the main driver to allow open cast mining on the site.
Tags: Australia, BHP Billiton, uranium, mining, China, natural resources
Stop Exploratory Mining on Sacred Land
STOP Exploratory mining in Socorro County New Mexico, For Beryllium/Bertrandite. More and more our peoples rights and Sacred Land is being encroached upon. The earth is a gift from God. Exploratory Mining will Disturb our Sacred Ancestors burial grounds,...
Tags: Mining, Drilling, sacred lands
Verizon Wireless Supports Big Coal and Mountain Top Destruction
It has recently come to the attention of the environmental community that phone service giant Verizon Wireless is quietly supporting a pro-coal, anti-environment rally on Labor Day. "It's called the Friends of America Rally and over 70,000 people have...
Tags: Massey Energy, Verizon Wireless, coal, mountain top removal, mining, CREDO
Mining Company Hits House with Giant Boulder
Frankfurt, KY - Frasure Mining Company, while engaging in a coal-extraction process known as mountaintop-removal mining last week, dislodged a giant boulder from a ridge top in Floyd county, which rolled right into the bedroom of a house below. ...
Tags: mountaintop removal, coal, Lisa Jackson, mining, Frasure Mining, boulder, damages
Deanville Mountain
This piece is about the destruction of a mountain. Deanville Mountain is the highest point in the Thumb. If you look at a map of Michigan, you’ll know where it is. Can a man own a mountain? Carve out the center and cart it away to shopping...
Tags: Deanville Mountain, mining, gravel pit, Michigan
Inuit miners demand traditional rights
Native Inuit Greenlanders have launched a campaign asserting their rights over the natural resources of their ancestral home. Traditional small-scale, sustainable gem miners are, they say, being harassed by the Danish Government and a Canadian...
Tags: Inuit, Greenland, ruby, mining, multinational corporations, colonialism
Impunity at the Freeport Gold & Copper Mine: Will Indonesian Security Forces Get Away with It Again?
West Papua Advocacy Team Statement Amidst an ongoing shooting spree at the Freeport McMoRan mining concession in Timika, West Papua, four people have died, including an Australian Freeport employee. Six separate ambushes have taken place since shootings...
Tags: Indonesia, human rights, murder, mining
U.S. Dollar Near 52 Week Low:
The dollar fell $0.50 today as the investors worried about the many problems with the U.S. Government's financial system; monetary system, debt, deficits, value of the dollar...Inflation concerns also helped push down the dollar throughout the trading...
Tags: dollar, u.s., us, mining, mines, gold, silver, metals, currency, money, stocks, bonds, etf, stock, bond, etfs, market, economy
Mountaintop-removal coal mining - No more Appalachian Trail
Breaking news -- Act now! How can humans even consider the practice of literally blowing the tops off mountains in order to remove coal? President Obama, are you listening? When the coal is all removed, when the wildlife is extinct, when the river...
Tags: Wildlife, conservation, mountaintop removal, mining
Amnesty demand to withdrawn Vedanta bauxite mining project in Orissa
In a open letter sent to the Indian authorities, Amnesty International demanded withdraw the clearance granted to Vedanta-Orissa Mining Corporation for bauxite mining project, which could threaten Dongria Khond indigenous communities. In his...
Tags: displacement, mining
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