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Eastern Mining Collectors Association holds annual mining antiques sale, swap
Collectors from as far as Alaska found themselves inside the Doubletree by Hilton in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, hoping to find and sell pieces of mining history. The Eastern Mining Collectors Association held it's annual mining antiques sale and…
Teeth reveal hard lives of medieval lead mining communities
Antiquity/Colin Merrony/Anna Bloxam Part of medieval Derbyshire may have had worse pollution than during the Industrial Revolution - and women may have suffered the most, archaeologists have found. The Peak District was a centre for lead production…
BlackRock urges mining giants to sell their rail networks
One of the world's most influential mining investors has urged BHP and Rio Tinto to consider selling their iron ore railways under a plan to liberate billions of dollars of cash for shareholders and new mines. BlackRock World Mining Fund manager…
Night mining, numberless tippers, paper owners: Inside Punjab's 'illegal' mining network
4 min read Chandigarh Make us preferred source on Google From paying village youths Rs 500 to keep a lookout for enforcement teams to transporting sand and gravel in vehicles without number plates, operators involved in alleged illegal mining along…
Punjab's (illegal) mining story: A ban in place, but digging goes on
6 min read Anandpur Sahib, Ropar Make us preferred source on Google Bhallan village, like most of the others in Punjab, settles into silence by around 10 pm, its residents having retired for the night. The quiet, however, is soon shattered as…
Mining is not a supply chain * WorldNetDaily * by Victor Kiss & Michael Roberts, Real Clear Wire
On July 22, 2026, the Australian mining company Harena announced it had signed a Project Development Funding Agreement with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) for up to $4.84 million. The money will fund permitting…
Vitalik Buterin Reveals Bitcoin Mining Costs as AI Competition Intensifies
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has highlighted a major difference between Bitcoin mining costs and artificial intelligence (AI) expenses, revealing how electricity and hardware investments influence profitability in both industries. In a…
How many canaries have we killed in the coal mine?' - Wall Street debates if the latest AI bubble warnings are another head fake or the real thing
Since the advent of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, the list of possible indicators that the AI boom was about to go bust is long and keeps getting longer, leaving Wall Street asking each time if the end is finally near. For instance, whenever AI…
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Shares Key Difference Between Bitcoin Mining and AI
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has once again ignited a debate across the crypto ecosystem after spotlighting a key difference between the cost structures of Bitcoin mining and AI inference earlier today. In what he described as an interesting…
Super tanker ablaze after striking mine in Strait of Hormuz: IRGC
A super tanker has caught fire after striking a sea mine in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday. In a statement shared via Iranian state media, the IRGC's navy said a tanker carrying more than two million…
Iran's Guards Say Two Tankers Hit Mines In Strait Of Hormuz
DUBAI, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said on Saturday that two oil tankers had caught fire after hitting naval mines while crossing the Strait of Hormuz, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported. State media said…
Microsoft Pitches AI for Africa's Oil, Gas and Mining Operations at African Energy Week
Microsoft set out its plan to speed AI adoption across Africa's oil, gas, utilities and mining sectors at African Energy Week 2026 on Oct. 12. Predictive maintenance was at the centre of the pitch. The approach links companies' enterprise data with…
Standard Lithium Stock: Everything Is Ready Except The Lithium Price (NYSE:SLI)
Standard Lithium has ticked three of four boxes before a build decision: permits, construction contracts, and offtake. The fourth box, the money, is still open, and lenders' extra reserves could land on shareholders at today's price. Lithium fell…
Drones as first responders: welcome to the future of policing
Ever-advancing information technology has digitised everything from paperwork, to how many of us go shopping or even how we socialise. It now steps deeper into the physical world - through drones. But as the skies fill with code-driven machines…
Hindley couple spent 20 years building railway station garden
A couple who have spent 20 years building a community garden at their local railway station have said they hope it will be named as the Best in Britain. Hindley Station in Wigan has been nominated in an annual 'World Cup' of stations competition…
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