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A U.S. mine debate centers on water, jobs
Sydney :: Australia | 6 days ago
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Standing on the marshy ground at Eagle Rock in the remote woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, it's hard to imagine that beneath one's feet is a lump of nickel worth billions of dollars. "This is where the money is," said Chauncey Moran, vice chairman...
Tags: Lake Superior Community Partnership, Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company, Michigan, Australia, Sydney, Environment, Rio Tinto Group, Yellow Dog Plains, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Eagle mine project, Mining, Lake Superior
Hind Copper mulls 20 % divestment
Kolkata :: India | 7 days ago
Credibility Public sector Hindustan Copper, the only vertically integrated copper company with captive mines, is mulling a divestment of around 20 per cent. It is already a listed company with a public shareholding of less than five per cent and is engaged in mining,...
Tags: HCL, India, Kolkata, Business Finance, Mining, Occupational safety and health
Report clears mine of security concerns
Shanghai :: China | 7 days ago
Credibility Plains Resources says an independent consultant's report has refuted Defence Department concerns regarding its Hawks Nest mining project near Woomera. Executive chairman Bob Duffin told shareholders at the company's annual general meeting yesterday that...
Tags: Hawks Nest, Defence Department, Mr Duffin, China, Shanghai, Business Finance, Mining, Occupational safety and health
Judge sides with environmental groups in coal case
Charleston :: SC :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Army Corps of Engineers violated federal environmental laws by failing to give the public enough of a say before issuing permits for mountaintop removal coal mines in West Virginia, a federal judge ruled Tuesday...Army Corps of Engineers violated federal...
Tags: West Virginia, mountaintop removal, surface mining, Consol Energy, Penn Virginia Resources, removal coal, coal mining, issuing permit, environmental groups, Charleston, Environment, Mountaintop removal mining, Environmental issues with mining, Clean Water Act, Mining, Water pollution
Argentine minister testifies to house committee on mining practices abroad
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | 8 days ago
Credibility A former Argentine environment minister told Members of Parliament today that she had been personally threatened and rendered ineffective as a result of the aggressive activities of foreign mining companies whoobjected to the government's efforts to clean...
Tags: Argentina, Romina Picolotti, mining companies, foreign mining, Buenos Aires, Environment, Mining, Occupational safety and health, John McKay, Politics
Coronado sets new target dates for study
Rosemont :: CA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Previously, Coronado intended to release a final EIS in the fall of 2009. The dates are consistent with ones discussed by Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture Jay Jensen when he visited the area in late October accompanied by U.S...At that time Jensen...
Tags: Coronado National Forest, EIS, Rosemont Mine, Forest Service, draft eis, Gabrielle Giffords, rosemont claims, Jay Jensen, Rosemont, Mining, Tailings, Impact assessment, Environmental impact statement, National Environmental Policy Act, Environment
Feds blame low oxygen for Ala. coal mine death
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Ala. — The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is blaming low oxygen for the death of a coal miner at a west Alabama mine...The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says he and another miner entered an area of low oxygen early Tuesday...
Tags: Dennis Hall, Brookwood, walters resources, Alabama, low oxygen, Jim Walter Resources Inc., alabama coal, Birmingham, Disaster Accident, Mining, Environment, Occupational safety and health, Coal mining, Sago Mine disaster, Industrial hygiene, Teller County Colorado, Mining in the United Kingdom, Tuscaloosa County Alabama, Mining in the United States, the United States, Tuscaloosa metropolitan area, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Industrial Workers of the World, Ukraine coal mine collapse, Safety engineering, Mine rescue, Tuscaloosa Alabama
Death toll in China mining blast rises to 106
Hegang :: China | 8 days ago
Credibility The number of dead in China's worst mining accident in two years rose to 106 Wednesday after two more bodies were pulled out of the coal mine, state media said. The state-run Xinhua News Agency cited local authorities as saying the bodies of two workers...
Tags: China, death toll, Hegang, Environment, Disaster Accident, Coal power in China, Shanxi mine blast, Coal mining, Accidents, Mining accident, Pasta de Conchos mine disaster, Climate change in China, Naval mine, Chongqing mine blast, Ukraine coal mine collapse, Mining, Explosive weapons
Rio Tinto eyes Iron Valley asset
Rio Tinto :: Portugal | 8 days ago
Credibility Rio Tinto has agreed to enter an exclusive agreement with Iron Ore Holdings to examine its Iron Valley deposit, about 10km northeast from Rio Tinto's Yandicoogina operation. This "may lead to the purchase of part or all of the lease covering the deposit",...
Tags: Iron Valley, Rio Tinto, Portugal, Iron ore, Rio Tinto Group, Pilbara Iron, BHP Billiton, Andrew Forrest, Pilbara region of Western Australia, Economic geology, Iron mining, Business Finance, Mining
Word "Canadian" So "Reviled in Some Places" that Visiting Canucks Say They're Americans
Toronto :: Canada | 9 days ago
Credibility Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer with AlterNet. Share and save this post: AlterNet Social Networks: I'll confess that I own a backpack with a prominent Canadian maple leaf that I've lugged around Europe once or...
Tags: natural resources, Canada, Toronto, Mining, Human rights, Dutch disease, International economics, Economic growth, Resource curse
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