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The company behind a $2 billion mining project for table salt and the mineral potash…
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…
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In the context of growing demand for metals and minerals, deep-sea mining has gathered attention for its promises of allowing access to mineral deposits of the seabed. Deep-sea mining is currently in the exploration phase, with its impacts yet to…
A new report from Dalhousie University shows flaws in the environmental review process for mining operations in Canada, with researchers finding that data for 20 per cent of the projects they reviewed was incomplete or missing entirely from public records.…
Move would set price floors, long-term sales to help Canadian companies compete with China Canada is officially designating certain critical minerals as a national security priority under the Defence Production Act, a move that would allow the federal government to…
Joe Pizarchik, who led the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement from 2009 to 2017, says Alabama’s move in the wake of a fatal 2024 home explosion increases risks to residents living atop “gassy” coal mines. Joe Pizarchik…
West Africa-focused Kodal Minerals (LON: KOD) says operations at its Bougouni lithium mine in southern Mali remain unaffected despite escalating security tensions near the capital, Bamako. The London-listed company said activities at Bougouni, located about 180 km from Bamako, continue as normal.…
Glencore is planning to wind down its Horne Smelter — Canada’s largest copper-metal producing plant — citing steep environmental upgrades and operational costs, Reuters reported on Monday. The Swiss commodities giant currently operates the Horne and the Canadian Copper Refinery (CCR), both…
In April 1998, a young geologist and his team set out from the village of Moribadou and trekked for six hours through the Guinea Highlands, a densely forested plateau that spreads across four countries in West Africa. “It was extremely…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An appeal hearing opened Monday in South Africa on whether a subsidiary of British-based mining company Anglo American PLC was responsible for lead poisoning over decades that affected around 140,000 people in Zambia. The class action by…