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How the Gold King Mine Spill Threatens the Navajo Nation
Colorado’s Gold King Mine spill sent millions of gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River this past summer. More than 130 miles away in New Mexico, along the San Juan River, the environmental disaster is making the Navajo Nation rethink itself. By Robert Sanchez.
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Gold at any cost: Illegal mining in Peru
For more than 50 million years, the Amazon rainforest has been a cradle of life. Its pristine forests, however, are increasingly under threat because of illegal gold mining. TechKnow's Phil Torres heads to La Pampa, the buffer zone of Tambopata National Reserve, to witness how illegal mining is turning forests into toxic wastelands. There, more than 100,000 acres of rainforest have been cleared.
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All 17 miners trapped in New York salt mine are rescued
Seventeen miners spent a frigid night in a broken-down elevator in America's deepest salt mine, huddling with heat packs and blankets before being rescued early Thursday, a mishap that highlighted the sometimes-risky work of churning out the road salt that keeps traffic moving on ice and snow. The workers were descending to start their shifts around 10 p.m. Wednesday when the roughly 5-by-6-foot car abruptly stopped about 90 stories below ground...
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8 Survivors Found 5 Days After Chinese Mine Collapsed
Rescuers using infrared cameras to peer into darkness at a wrecked mine in eastern China on Wednesday found eight surviving miners who were trapped for five days after a collapse so violent it registered as a seismic event. The disaster on Christmas Day at the gypsum mine in Shandong province killed at least one worker. Nine others remain missing, and 11 made it to safety or were rescued early on.
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Natural Resources Were Supposed to Make Afghanistan Rich. Here’s What’s Happening to Them
Traveling to Logar Province reveals unmanageable violence and co-optation by foreign companies. By Antony Loewenstein. (Dec. 14)
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Can You Own Part of an Asteroid? How Asteroid Mining Is Changing Space Law
Coal miners mine coal; diamond miners mine diamonds; gold miners mine gold; space miners (will) mine space—and anything in it that has precious metals or compounds that can be whisked into rocket fuel. But, just like the first three kinds of “resource extraction,” the celestial kind will face more than a few philosophical, financial, and regulatory complications. By Sarah Scoles.
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Is the $5,000,000 CAT 797F too expensive?
The Caterpillar 797 is a series of off-highway, ultra class, two-axle, mechanical powertrain haul trucks developed and manufactured in the United States by Caterpillar Inc. specifically for high production mining and heavy-duty construction applications world-wide. In production since 1998, the 797 series represents Caterpillar’s largest, highest capacity haul trucks.
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High in the Andes, A Mine Eats a 400-Year-Old City
For a woman intent on moving an entire city, fifty-six-year old Congresswoman Gloria Ramos Prudencio, barely five feet tall, looks unassuming. Her city is Cerro de Pasco, population 70,000. Perched on the treeless Peruvian altiplano at 14,200 feet, it’s one of the highest cities on the planet. “As a girl, walking past Bellavista, where the Americans lived, I would pester my mother, ‘Why do the gringos get the nice houses?’ ” the soft-spoken Ramos recalls.
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Amid Gold Rush, Jaguars Clash With Miners
Nearly one hundred of the big cats have died since the 2008 recession raised the value of gold, says National Geographic grantee Anthony Cummings.
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U.S. Space Mining Law Is Potentially Dangerous And Illegal: How Asteroid Mining Act May Violate International Treaty
The space mining legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama on Wednesday – which gives U.S. space firms the right to own and sell natural resources mined from asteroids and other space bodies – is considered dangerous and potentially illegal by some experts. Particularly happy with the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act is Planetary Resources, a 2010-founded firm seeking to extract water, important materials, and minerals from asteroids and profit from them.
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Five rescued in Tanzania after 41 days trapped in gold mine
Five people were rescued after spending 41 days trapped by a landslide in a small-scale gold mine in northwest Tanzania and one body was recovered, the mining ministry said on Tuesday. The incident occurred at Kahama district, Shinyanga region, near the licensed Bulyanhulu and Buzwagi gold mines, which are owned by Acacia Mining Ltd, formerly African Barrick Gold Plc.
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Brazil Mining Flood Could Devastate Environment for Years
The collapse of two dams at a Brazilian mine has cut off drinking water for quarter of a million people and saturated waterways downstream with dense orange sediment that could wreck the ecosystem for years to come.
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21st October 1966 - Mudslide buries school in Wales
An avalanche of mud and rocks buries a school in Aberfan, Wales, killing 148 people, mostly young students. The elementary school was located below a hill where a mining operation dumped its waste.
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13th October 2010 - Chilean miners are rescued after 69 days underground
The last of 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile underground for more than two months at a caved-in mine in northern Chile, are rescued. The miners survived longer than anyone else trapped underground in recorded history.
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Tesla strikes deal to buy lithium hydroxide mined in northern Mexico
The mine will potentially supply Tesla's Gigafactory outside of Reno, Nevada.
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Oops! Film Inadvertently Exposes Mining Conflict in San Gabriels
A short documentary film on recreational gold prospecting in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument neglects to mention that mining has been illegal there for decades.
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The Race to Save the Bonneville Salt Flats from a Slushy Demise
Racing fans, the government and a mining company search for ways to save Utah’s natural salt pan and its world-famous speedway
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Armed Militia Converges On Montana Gold Mine, And The Feds Are Stepping In
The owners of a Montana gold mine sent a letter to the U.S. Forest Service earlier this month warning its employees to stay off the owners' property. By Catherine Thompson.
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Over 60 Missing From NW China Landslide
Rescuers have dug out four people while more than 60 remained missing after a landslide buried the living quarters of a mining company in northwest China's Shaanxi Province early Wednesday, the provincial government said.
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Recovering the Lost Lessons of West Virginia’s Historic Labor Struggles
When looking back at the mine battles of the early 1900s, West Virginia officials are as guilty of misrepresenting the state's rich history as any outsider. By Mark Hand.
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