#mining

New Podcast! "29 July 2019: Blackjewel blockade" on @Spreaker #history #mining #workers
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/29-july-2019-blackjewel-blockade--66814567

https://www.europesays.com/uk/299092/ Russia’s Coal Industry Is Collapsing. Will it Drag the Economy Down With It? #Business #Economy #Mining #UK #UnitedKingdom

The seizure of one of the largest known mercury shipments in history, moving from mines in Mexico to illegal Amazon gold mining zones, exposes the wide use of the toxic metal in the rain forest, according to authorities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/28/world/mercury-amazon-gold-mining/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #gold #mining #latinamerica #southamerica #amazonriver

"Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever -- Exploitation of the high seas risks doing irreversible damage to biodiversity, #climate stability and #ocean equity. A consensus must be built now to save them." (Nature Comment, 04 June 2025)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01665-0
#sea #deepsea #mining #fishing

"Now, a new study that examines the world’s total supply of fresh water — accounting for its rivers and rain, ice and aquifers together — warns that Earth’s most essential resource is quickly disappearing, signaling what the paper’s authors describe as “a critical, emerging threat to humanity.” The landmasses of the planet are drying. In most places there is less precipitation even as moisture evaporates from the soil faster. More than anything, Earth is being slowly dehydrated by the unmitigated mining of groundwater, which underlies vast proportions of every continent. Nearly 6 billion people, or three quarters of humanity, live in the 101 countries that the study identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — portending enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

The paper “provides a glimpse of what the future is going to be,” said Hrishikesh Chandanpurkar, an earth systems scientist working with Arizona State University and the lead author of the study. “We are already dipping from a trust fund. We don’t actually know how much the account has.”

The research, published on Friday in the journal Science Advances, confirms not just that droughts and precipitation are growing more extreme but reports that drying regions are fast expanding. It also found that while parts of the planet are getting wetter, those areas are shrinking. The study, which excludes the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, concludes not only that Earth is suffering a pandemic of “continental drying” in lower latitudes, but that it is the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world that now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water in those areas, which generally don’t have glaciers.

https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Drought #Mining #GroundwaterMining #Science

Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials
#ycombinator #batteries #mining #lithium_ion_batteries #ev_batteries

Earth First: **Germany: Call to Defend Sundi and Hambi**

https://earthfirstjournal.news/2025/07/26/germany-call-to-defend-sundi-and-hambi/

from  Act for Free The Megamachine spreads its devastating skewers in all directions: towards the ocean floor, other planets, and the last remaining areas of wilderness on Earth. There are many places to take a stand against a suicidal culture which, if […]

#AnarchistMovement #Europe #Events #ForestDefense #InternationalEcoDefense #Mining #News

https://www.europesays.com/2273707/ Rich Nolan | Artificial intelligence is upending the job market, but this industry is hiring | Columns #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #copper #Economy #Energy #MetaPlatforms #mining #programmer #technology

China has a monopoly on the production of rare earths.
The world could not compete because it is a dirty industry and China introduced volatility in prices, which is a business risk.
Now the world will have to invest because it is a strategic risk
#mining
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5475137/china-rare-earth-elements

yikes!
3 miners trapped underground at Red Chris mine near Dease Lake. Not a lot of information right now but apparently they are in a refuge area and safe.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/miners-red-chris-mine-bc-dease-lake-1.7592096

It is a gold and copper mine in NW BC. It is closer (as the crow flies) to Juneau Alaska than Whitehorse, or Prince George.

https://operations.newmont.com/canada/red-chris-canada

#BCPoli #Mining

BBC: The rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis…

In 2021, about 95,000 tonnes of #lithium was consumed globally - by 2024 it had more than doubled to 205,000 tonnes, according to the International Energy Agency #IEA ... BBC news #greentechnology #climatecrisis #climatechange #mining #environment

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/bbc-the-rise-of-green-tech-is-feeding-another-environmental-crisis-2/

A Pacific island nation wants to mine the ocean floor. Many islanders fear this could taint their ocean forever. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/23/asia-pacific/politics/pacific-island-nation-mine-ocean/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #mining #oceans #cookislands #pacificislands

https://www.europesays.com/2268688/ Neptun Deep Receives the Permit for Upstream Supply Pipelines #analysis #electric #Energy #event #gas #GasPrice #industry #Interview #LiquefiedNaturalGas #lng #LNGPrice #magazine #media #metals #mining #NaturalGas #oil #opinion #power #print #Renewables #review #tech

"Restoring sea floor after mining may not be possible, researchers warn"

#Sea #Oceans #Mining

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-sea-floor.html

https://www.europesays.com/2267857/ EU’s von der Leyen eyes rare-earth mining with Japan #der #EUS #eyes #japan #leyen #mining #RareEarth #von

Win for #chemical industry as #EPA shutters scientific research office
After Trump took office, array of #petrochemical, #mining, and #farm industry coalitions ramped up campaign to limit use of EPA's assessments of #health risks of chemicals.
Industry #lobbyists didn’t ask for 100s of Office of Research and Development (#ORD) staff to be laid off or reassigned. But elimination of agency’s scientific research arm goes a long way toward achieving the goal they sought.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/win-for-chemical-industry-as-epa-shutters-scientific-research-office/

why would Labor make such a disastrous decision that is clearly counter to our national interest?
#auspol #politics #australia

State capture
#fossilfuels #gas #resources #mining

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/07/21/north-west-shelf-gaslighting

President Trump has cleared the way for a race to the abyss to extract critical minerals, even though seabed mining technology remains under development and commercially unproven. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/world/politics/trump-minerals-deep-sea-mining/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #rareearths #mining #oceans #batteries #pollution #sustainability #us #donaldtrump

BBC: The rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis…

In 2021, about 95,000 tonnes of #lithium was consumed globally - by 2024 it had more than doubled to 205,000 tonnes, according to the International Energy Agency #IEA ... BBC news #greentechnology #climatecrisis #climatechange #mining #environment

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/bbc-the-rise-of-green-tech-is-feeding-another-environmental-crisis/

https://www.europesays.com/2264154/ Europe Mining Steel Industry Report 2025-2035 #CrudeSteel #Economy #EconomyOfEU #EconomyOfEurope #EconomyOfEuropeanUnion #EconomyOfTheEU #EconomyOfTheEuropeanUnion #EUEconomy #Europe #EuropeMarkets #EuropeanMarkets #HighStrengthSteel #markets #mining #OpenPitMining #ResearchAndMarkets #steel #SteelManufacturer #SteelProduction #SteelScrap #Steelmaking