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The 'survivor spirit' keeping a Barnsley mining community alive - BBC News
Though it's been more than 30 years since the closure of Grimethorpe Colliery in Barnsley, the spirit among the former miners remains as strong as ever. On a rain-sodden December afternoon, hundreds of them are meeting up at Grimethorpe Working…
American taxpayers own a stake in this Nevada lithium mine. Will it pay off?
RENO — The museum inside the University of Nevada, Reno's Mackay School of Mines is a living scrapbook of the mining industry that gave the Silver State its name. Three floors and rows of glass cases feature small, colorful samples of ore…
Amazon's 'Internet Famous' List Is A Gold Mine For TikTok items - Here Are 33 Of The Best Ones
Promising review: 'Almost two weeks and my skin has been doing great! I replaced my AHA toner from Paula's Choice with this and found that it has been more gentle and made my skin glow immediately the next morning. I still like my AHA toner, but…
Republic Investigation: Rampant Post-Sunset Illegal Mining Across Aravalli Range Exposed
The growing momentum of the Save Aravalli movement reflects rising public awareness that the future of the Aravalli range is directly linked to regional sustainability. The degradation of the Aravallis has a direct impact on North India's climate…
Indigenous conflict with Nevada lithium mine endures years after protest
FORT MCDERMITT — Learning the protocol for “unanticipated discoveries” is a mandatory part of visitor training for the site where Lithium Americas, a mining company originally from Canada, plans to tear up the desert floor in…
Gold Mining Kicks Off In Jonnagiri
Kurnool: Gold mining has begun at Jonnagiri in Tuggali mandal of Kurnool district, raising hopes of economic benefits to the region's people. Geo Mysore is handling the project after it secured the required permissions. It started large-scale…
Beetles block mining of Europe's biggest rare earths deposit
A two-hour drive southwest of Oslo, in the former mining community of Ulefoss home to 2,000 people, lies the Fensfeltet treasure: an estimated 8.8 million tonnes of rare earths. These elements, used to make magnets crucial to the auto, electronics…
'Force the table to come to you': Nevada ranching town worried about lithium mine
OROVADA — The road to Thacker Pass goes through the ranching community of Orovada — literally. The unincorporated town, ripe with sprawling green fields not usually characteristic of the Nevada high desert, is a stopover as travelers…
Inside the little-known protest lawsuit from a powerful lithium mining company
RENO — Inside Dean Barlese's home on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reservation is a whiteboard with the numbers of tribal members who would drop everything to come to the beloved elder's aid if needed. So are the crinkled lawsuit papers the…
Hit reality show rides the gold boom to make mining millionaires
The Gold Retrievers are on edge. Torrential rain in Western Australia's Goldfields region has disabled a crucial piece of equipment, and if the two-man mining team does not get the dry blower working, the chances of hitting their season target of…
The Party of 'Parental Rights' Just Took a Terrifying Step Toward Stripping Mine and Putting My Child's Life in Danger
That thought has been hovering just below my consciousness for the past year. Wednesday night it surged above the surface. Since Thursday morning, it's all I can hear. My son turned 12 last month. He's in seventh grade. And he's trans. Yesterday…
Cancer, mercury and extraction: Nevada mining town, near Thacker Pass, has polluted past
MCDERMITT — It's nearly impossible to find a family in McDermitt that hasn't been scarred by a cancer death. Flanked by the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation to the south and north, the town's families — both Native and not —…
China Arrests Over 80 Tibetans Protesting Against Gold Mining Project in Kashi Village, Eastern Tibet
Dharamshala: Five major Tibetan NGOs condemned China's Gold Mining Project in Kashi Village, Kham region of Eastern Tibet and stood in solidarity with the Tibetan Protesters. On November 5, the Chinese Communist Government launched a gold mining…
'Consultation is not consent': What rights do tribes have when mining comes knocking?
FORT MCDERMITT — Building the nation's largest lithium mine on public land means a federal agency must, by law, consult with the original, Indigenous stewards of the land. But what that looks like in practice varies widely in both legal…
Beetles block mining of Europe's biggest rare earths deposit
– As Europe seeks to curb its dependence on China for rare earths, plans to mine the continent's biggest deposit have hit a roadblock over fears that mining operations could harm endangered beetles, mosses and mushrooms. A two-hour drive…
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