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Ghana’s Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, during a visit to the…
When two Oglala Lakota scouts heard drilling was expected to begin on Pe’ Sla, the…
Australia’s Yindjibarndi Indigenous group said on Wednesday it had lodged an appeal with the federal…
As the country places more priority on the mining industry in this financial year, Namayingo…
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The News Tribune’s April 22 “Our View” editorial lauding the reversal of the 20-year moratorium on mining on federal lands upstream from the Boundary Waters displayed an unfortunate eagerness to credit copper mining industry propaganda. I am not anti-mining. My…
Global demand for critical minerals, used to build drones and electric cars, is surging, setting of a new wave of criminality in the world’s largest rainforest. The Amazon rainforest has been plundered for decades for rubber, timber and gold. Now,…
In the backdrop of an effort to increase American energy production and mineral exploration, Montana Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy and Democratic counterpart from Delaware, Sen. Tim Coons, introduced a bill Friday to “unmask” Chinese labor abuses in Africa. A press…
Hundreds demonstrated in the Dominican Republic on Sunday to protest Canadian company GoldQuest’s proposed mining project. The so-called Romero project aims to extract deposits of gold, copper and silver from a reserve of 1.1 million ounces, valued at around US$5…
Europe just found something massive buried under Norway, and it’s making China very nervous. Europe’s largest rare earth deposit just got considerably bigger. On March 3, 2026, Rare Earths Norway announced that its Fen Carbonatite Complex in Telemark, southern Norway, had grown 81 percent…
Two enormous sandlike dunes at an old chemical processing plant in South Africa are at the center of an exploratory U.S.-backed project to extract highly sought-after rare earth elements from industrial mining waste. The Phalaborwa Rare Earths Project has U.S.…
Argentina’s congress has approved a bill promoted by the libertarian president, Javier Milei, that authorises mining in ecologically sensitive areas of glaciers and permafrost, outraging environmentalists. The amendment to the “glacier law”, which was already approved by the senate in…
Slag from metal processing may help capture and store CO2 emissions. A new Concordia-led study suggests that iron-rich slag, one of mining’s biggest waste products could help store carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. The researchers examined whether slag, a waste material…