Chile’s environmental watchdog on Friday announced a "serious" charge against BHP’s Escondida copper mine, the world’s largest, for water misuse since 2005.
The SMA regulator said the mine had caused a sufficiently serious drop in the water ta…
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Chile’s environmental watchdog said on Friday it would charge BHP’s Escondida copper mine, the world`s largest, with drawing more water from the parched Chilean desert than its permits allowed for nearly 15 years.
The SMA regulator said the mine had c…
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Vale (NYSE: Vale) announced July 29 that it started, on a preventive basis, the Level 1 emergency protocol for Barragem 5 dam, at Mina da Mutuca,…
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The US Army Corps of Engineers is poised to give its blessing later this week to an Alaska copper and gold mining project the Obama administration tried to block because of concerns it could harm the state’s salmon industry.
A final environmental impa…
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Putting nature above business considerations has the potential to generate 395 million jobs and US$10 trillion in business opportunities by 2030, the World Economic Forum…
‘Nature first’ approach could unlock value in extractive industries: report Read More »
Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel reported that a pipeline belonging to Norilsktransgaz, which is part of the Norilsk Nickel Group, depressurized during the transfer of…
Nornickel reports second fuel spill in the Arctic in less than two months Read More »
Russian mining company Nornickel has dismissed the management of the Talnakh concentrator for gross misconduct, after an internal investigation discovered two instances of unauthorised industrial water discharge.
The world’s largest producer of pallad…
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Russian mining group Nornickel has suffered a fuel pipeline leak in the Arctic, a month-and-a-half after the company reported a major spill near the city of Norilsk.
Nornickel said on Sunday that about 44.5 t of aviation fuel was spilled during the de…
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Antofagasta’s (LSE: ANTO) Twin Metals Minnesota has received formal notice that its planned copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum metals mine will be assessed through a federal environmental review. The…
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Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel, said on Wednesday that it was committed to fully cover the cost of remediation of the environmental impact of the recent fuel spill in the Arctic, but that it disagreed with th…
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