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A new mining agreement provides no benefits for Mexico and fails to address health and…
A group of monks piled into Harry Browne’s one-room cabin earlier this year for morning…
The Malawi government has suspended the mining license of a coal company for dumping mining…
Senate Republicans send Trump resolution to lift mining ban near Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Congressional Republicans have sent President Donald Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban…
MINING
Slag from metal processing may help capture and store CO2 emissions. A new Concordia-led study…
LATEST NEWS
President Donald Trump was asked on Thursday about a report that the U.S. is preparing to offer Russian President Vladimir Putin economic incentives to encourage him to end the war in Ukraine—including opening up access to natural resources off Alaska’s…
DFC Approves Investments to Promote U.S. Critical Mineral Supply Chains
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Board of Directors at its quarterly meeting approved two new investments that will support economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa and strengthen supply chains of critical minerals vital for American national…
West Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – July 9, 2025) – Millennial Potash Corp. is excited to announce that the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (“DFC”) has committed up to US $ 3,000,000 in project development funding (approx. CDN $ 4,080,000)…
Recovering just 1 percent of rare earth elements from these by-products could replace imports Many useful metals unearthed from U.S. mines are discarded. When mining operations dig for valuable metals, they often exhume ore containing other metals too. These by-product…
Chinese reference prices for rare earths have risen by around 40% this year. One of the triggers for this increase was the Pentagon’s investment in the US mining company MP Materials in July. Emerging rare earth producers such as Ucore…
Environmental crime in Costa Rica has escalated dramatically, with the illegal gold mining crisis in the Crucitas region now bearing all the hallmarks of organized crime, according to Environmental Prosecutor Luis Diego Hernández. Speaking on the growing threat, Hernández warned…
Metals and sulfate in air pollution mixture may contribute most to asthma hospitalizations
Metals, particularly nickel and vanadium, and sulfate particles are the components of fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) that most strongly contribute to the association between long-term exposure to air pollution and hospitalization among asthma sufferers, according to a new study…
R. Subramaniam, AGR Data Companies, discusses how India’s coal’s use will persist even because the nation transitions to cleaner vitality sources. Coal hardly ever will get good PR. Say the phrase and most of the people image smog, soot, and…