Vladimir Potanin, one of the 50 richest people on the planet, stood awkwardly on the Siberian tundra near the remote mining city of Norilsk. It had been less than a week since a spill that threatened to become one of Russia’s worst disasters in the Arc…
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A group of 15 Democrat-led states sued to block the Trump administration’s decision to sell drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, alleging the plan fails to account for the danger to wildlife and climate-change impacts.
The plan to o…
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The Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it had created a Colorado-based office focused on hardrock mining cleanups in Western US states, a move aimed at streamlining the remediation of thousands of mines abandoned over decades.
The Offic…
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Gold mines emitted on average 0.8 tonnes of CO2-equivalent (CO2e) for every ounce of gold that was produced in 2019, according to a report from…
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BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP) said this week it had inked a deal to support the development of new solar and wind farms in Australia’s…
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BHP (ASX, LON, NYSE: BHP) is fine-tuning details of a revamped strategy to reduce the company’s operational emissions and its use of diesel, which will…
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Salt miner Seleine Mines – a division of K+S Windsor Salt – has been fined C$400 000 for violating environmental laws in 2014.
Environment and Climate Change Canada says Seleine Mines had disposed of dredged material on four occasions in 2014, outside…
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Northern Dynasty Minerals’ (TSX: NDM) shares jumped Aug. 19 after the company revealed that the Alaska Republican Party officially endorsed its proposed Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum mine….
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Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM; NYSE: NAK) said on August 13 that the Pebble Partnership has written to the Inspectors General of the U.S. Army,…
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The Mexican federal environmental department has approved Toronto-listed Orla Mining’s environmental impact statement, or MIA, which is required for the development of the Camino Rojo oxide gold project.
The receipt of the MIA also satisfies one of th…
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