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Tears of the Sun
The gold rush at the top of the world.
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The Next Great Gold Rush Won't Be Taking Place on Earth
here's a new gold rush heating up, but the hunt isn't for oil, gas or tech stocks — it's for asteroids. There are more than 10,000 near-Earth asteroids shooting by at any given moment, and many of them contain valuable resources like water, platinum and iron. While water and iron don't seem worthy of a gold rush by Earth standards, their value skyrockets due to their scarcity in space and the challenge of extracting them. If private companies can figure out a sustainable way to mine...
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Rare African plant signals diamonds beneath the soil
Geologist discovers first botanical indicator for diamond-bearing rock
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Coal Miners Struggle to Survive in an Industry Battered by Layoffs and Bankruptcy
Shrinking exports and America’s growing reliance on hydraulic fracturing and renewable energy have left coal producers in deep trouble. By Clifford Krauss.
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Global Coal Boom Ends As China And World Wakes Up To Reality Of Carbon Pollution
There was a true global renaissance in coal starting around the year 2000, thanks primarily to China. But it is now stalling, thanks again to China.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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