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cbsnews.com - Dr. Céline  Gounder - Disease once linked to mining hits workers in countertops industry
Disease once linked to mining hits workers in countertops industry
CBS News

marketwatch.com - Rio Tinto Reports Fatal Incident at Utah Mine
Rio Tinto Reports Fatal Incident at Utah Mine
MarketWatch

Rio Tinto said an employee of a contracting company died following an incident at its Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah. All surface and underground mining operations at Kennecott, the town where the mine is located, have been suspended. Chief Executive…

dailymail.co.uk - David Wilcock, Deputy Political Editor - Navy's last Gulf minesweeper home days before Iran 'mines Hormuz
Navy's last Gulf minesweeper home days before Iran 'mines Hormuz
Mail Online

Battered and unseaworthy, HMS Middleton was dragged by tugs into Portsmouth naval base on Sunday. The Hunt class mine countermeasures vessel (MCMV) returned to the home of the Royal Navy on March 8 after being brought back from the Gulf by a…

foreignpolicy.com - Rishi Iyengar - Iran's Strait of Hormuz Toolkit: Drones, Missiles, and Mines
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Toolkit: Drones, Missiles, and Mines
Foreign Policy

Welcome back to Foreign Policy 's Situation Report. We're now 13 days into the Iran war, and Tehran increasingly appears to be setting the terms and tempo. We'll be diving into that and more in this week's edition. Alright, here's what's on tap for…

abc.net.au - Rhiannon Shine - Lack of access to WA mine sites sparks concerns over drinking water
Lack of access to WA mine sites sparks concerns over drinking water
ABC News

Topic:Mining Environmental Issues The Water Corporation says a lack of access to Alcoa mine sites is making it difficult to monitor the quality of the state's drinking water. The peak water provider says a lack of information from the mining giant…

abc.net.au - Kelly Fuller - Billionaire accused of 'arrogance' as hundreds of mine workers laid off
Billionaire accused of 'arrogance' as hundreds of mine workers laid off
ABC News

Liquidators have announced up to 238 redundancies at Tahmoor Colliery in south-west Sydney as they move to sell the coal mine. The decision follows more than a year of financial instability under Sanjeev Gupta's GFG Alliance, leaving workers and…

watoday.com.au - Holly Thompson - Lack of oversight at Alcoa's mines raises fresh concerns over Perth's drinking water
Lack of oversight at Alcoa's mines raises fresh concerns over Perth's drinking water
WAtoday

Western Australia's water utility was shut out of Alcoa's mining sites in state forest, newly released documents reveal, raising concerns the lack of oversight could be detrimental to Perth's drinking water supply. The documents show Water…

smh.com.au - Andrew Todd - Locksley cracks 99.5% purity antimony milestone from US mine
Locksley cracks 99.5% purity antimony milestone from US mine
The Sydney Morning Herald

Locksley Resources has successfully produced 99.5 per cent purity antimony trioxide from feedstock sourced at its Desert Antimony mine, part of the wider Mojave project in California. The company says its industry-grade metal was achieved through…

billboard.com - Jessica Roiz - Feid Launches Record Label Grabaciones Los Poderosos: 'It's Always Been an Ambition of Mine'
Feid Launches Record Label Grabaciones Los Poderosos: 'It's Always Been an Ambition of Mine'
Billboard

Feid officially launches his own record label called Grabaciones Los Poderosos, Billboard can exclusively announce today (March 12). The label will operate under a distribution agreement with Universal Music Latin Entertainment. “For me…

aljazeera.com - Al Jazeera Staff - Five vessels attacked amid reports of Iranian drone boats, sea mines
Five vessels attacked amid reports of Iranian drone boats, sea mines
Al Jazeera

Iranian explosive-laden boats appear to have attacked two fuel tankers in Iraqi waters, setting them ablaze and killing one crew member, after projectiles struck three vessels in Gulf waters, according to reports. The ships targeted in late-night…

coindesk.com - James Van Straten - Bitcoin news: BTC mining faces price risk, not power cost shock, as oil tops $100
Bitcoin news: BTC mining faces price risk, not power cost shock, as oil tops $100
CoinDesk

As oil surges past $100 amid escalating Middle East tensions, the question for the Bitcoin network and miners is not whether their power bills will rise, but whether Bitcoin's price will fall. According to research from bitcoin mining software and…

odt.co.nz - Groups asked for mine proposal feedback
Groups asked for mine proposal feedback
Otago Daily Times Online News

The fast-track expert panel overseeing a massive mining proposal in Central Otago has approached several environmental groups for feedback. Santana Minerals wants to mine for gold in the Bendigo Valley, and its application has been referred to the…

decrypt.co - Decrypt Agent - Bitcoin Miners 'Sitting on a Gold Mine' as AI Demand Ramps Up: VanEck
Bitcoin Miners 'Sitting on a Gold Mine' as AI Demand Ramps Up: VanEck
Decrypt

VanEck's head of digital asset research, Matthew Sigel, said Bitcoin miners are uniquely positioned to benefit from a global scramble for electricity and computing power, arguing the sector has underappreciated upside as AI demand accelerates.

nationalpost.com - AFP - Why Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz would be a nightmare for the West
Why Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz would be a nightmare for the West
National Post

Tehran is seeking to choke the vital Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic following U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran, with fears it could be using sea mines to do so. U.S. forces have struck 28 Iranian mine-laying vessels, President Donald Trump…

mining-technology.com - Shree Mishra - Soma Gold gets first shipment from Diamantina Mine in Colombia
Soma Gold gets first shipment from Diamantina Mine in Colombia
Mining Technology

Soma Gold has received the first shipment of mined material from the Diamantina Mine, now formalised under Colombian regulations, at its El Limon Mill in Zaragoza, Antioquia. This development follows more than five years of efforts to formalise the…

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