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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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Useful resource depletion is among the largest challenges going through the mining trade. The problems of declining grades and frequency of discoveries are well-known, however depletion can also be driving miners ever deeper in quest of ore. There may be…
Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin has said he is wants to ramp up exploration of rare earth reserves in Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine, hinting that “foreign partners” may be brought into the fold amid the Trump-drive thaw. Potanin, who owns the…
China’s strategic investment in processing instead of mining rare earth metals has led to its nearly total domination of worldwide rare earth metal production, giving it leverage over the U.S., an industry expert said in the latest episode of the…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is seeking a resolution to help stabilize fertilizer markets. U.S. Senator Joni Ernst tells Brownfield a new letter on Wednesday asks Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to add phosphate to the U.S. Critical Minerals…
Scores of companies have reached out to JPMorgan, the banker on the landmark deal between the Pentagon and MP Materials in which the U.S. government took a stake in the rare-earths producer. The disclosure, from JPMorgan co-head of mid-cap M&A…
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is holding a pair of virtual public hearings this week to get input on a proposed rule that would revise the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act (DSHMRA) regulations. According to a notice…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Zambian government to act punitively against mining firms that are violating domestic environmental law and worsening lead pollution. HRW detailed the impact of the firm Jubilee Metals Group on Kabwe, one of…
Mining activities can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine, can impact social and…