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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…
Congressional Republicans have sent President Donald Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban…
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As the U.N. body faces an American threat to its jurisdiction over deep-sea mining, diplomats have more or less left all the important questions unanswered For the last three decades, the United Nations-affiliated body called the International Seabed Authority, or…
Roughly two years ago, Teck Washington, the local arm of the Canadian-based mining company, reached out to the Kalispel Tribe for a meeting. The tribe wasn’t told exactly why, but staff members knew it likely had something to do with…
Sweden’s government has proposed a landmark policy shift to remove its uranium mining ban, effective January 1, 2026. This reversal represents a dramatic change in the country’s energy strategy as it faces growing electricity demands and seeks to reduce dependence…
Ten members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources are making an unusual visit to Alaska this week during a break from business on Capitol Hill. The 45-person committee deals with a variety of issues pertaining to…
Mining, Belt and Road participation feature in trilateral meetings between China, Afghanistan and Pakistan in Kabul. China wants to explore mining in Afghanistan and have Kabul formally join its Belt and Road Initiative, a massive infrastructure plan, which is a…
MANILA, Philippines — Joseph Sy, a mining executive arrested over fraudulent Philippine citizenship, was born and raised in China, a Senate panel found yesterday. Sy’s alleged links with the Communist Party of China were also flagged by Sen. Risa Hontiveros.…
Civil society groups and NGOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo are calling for another reassessment of a controversial “minerals for infrastructure” deal with China. When it was renegotiated more than a year ago, it was described as the “contract…
An enormous quantity of essential mineral mining is ‘not important’ for the inexperienced transition, new evaluation from the UK-based campaigning organisation International Justice Now has discovered. The evaluation has in the present day been revealed in a brand new report,…