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Mining for asteroids will be the next gold rush
Forget cryptocurrency — the next big “gold rush” isn’t even on Earth. Physicist Michio Kaku, writing in his new book “The Future of Humanity” (Doubleday), believes a bonanza is coming from mining asteroids, which he calls “flying gold mine[s] in outer space.”
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The Massive Prize Luring Miners to the Stars
Sending a spacecraft to the far reaches of our solar system to mine asteroids might seem like an improbable ambition best left to science fiction. But it’s inching closer to reality. By Susanne Barton, Hannah Recht.
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Australia tipped to soon produce more than half of the world's lithium
Western Australia is tipped to produce more than half of the world’s lithium supply by the end of this year, as new mines come online and the world’s appetite for the materials used to make batteries for electric vehicles grows. That forecast, made by Citi analyst Clarke Wilkins last week, came on the same day that the managing director of lithium miner Pilbara Minerals, Ken Brinsden, said Australia was in "pole position in lithium raw materials", and described one part of WA as "lithium valley".
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The Pirate Bay Is Using Visitors' Computers to Mine Monero Again
The notorious torrent index site The Pirate Bay has resumed using users’ CPU to mine Monero (XMR) on their website. On July 4th, The Pirate Bay added a disclaimer at the bottom of their website which stated: “By entering TPB you agree to XMR being mined using your CPU. If you don’t agree please leave now or install an adBlocker” As CCN reported, The Pirate Bay conducted a one-day trial back in September to test out mining Monero using visitors CPU’s. The website utilized a tool...
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Coal Miner to Trump: ‘Coal Mining Isn’t Coming Back’
A fifth-generation coal miner from Appalachia tells Trump his plan to loosen regulations on coal-fired plants is not only harmful to the environment, but also bad for the future of the region. In the op-ed video above, Nick Mullins, a fifth-generation miner and a ninth-generation Appalachian from Virginia, explains why Trump’s sunny rhetoric about the coal industry and plans to lower emissions standards are not helping regular coal miners — they’re lining the pockets of industry executives. As coal seams dwindle, Trump’s promises to revive the industry sound false and regressive.
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The Women Miners in Pants Who Shocked Victorian Britain
“The article of clothing which women ought only to wear in a figure of speech.” By Natasha Frost.
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Eureka! Mother Lode Of Gold Found In Australian Mine
Miner Henry Dole was in for a shock when he went into the Beta Hunt mine in southwestern Australia after the workers set off some explosives. "Everything was covered in dust, and as I watered the dirt down there was just gold everywhere, as far as you could see," he told Australia's ABC News. "There was chunks of gold in the face, on the ground, truly unique I reckon. ... I nearly fell over looking at it ... we were picking it up for hours."
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Mining bitcoin uses more energy than mining gold
For the past few years, cryptocurrency networks like bitcoin have gained a reputation as energy hogs, eliciting headlines comparing their energy consumption to that of mid-sized countries. Now, a new analysis shows mining bitcoin uses more energy, dollar for dollar, than mining gold. “It was definitely surprising,” environmental engineer Max Krause said of his findings, published today in the journal Nature Sustainability.
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What lies at the bottom of one of the deepest holes ever dug by man?
Over the years at 60 Minutes, we've been in more than a few tunnels. We explored Mexican drug lord El Chapo's subterranean escape routes, burrowed through a Roman villa buried by Mt. Vesuvius and traveled the depths of the New York City subway. But nothing prepared us for a place called Moab Khotsong, a South African gold mine that extends nearly two miles beneath the surface. In their pursuit of gold, South Africans have dug the deepest holes on Earth. The country was the world's top gold producer for decades.
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Tariffs on Chinese rare-earth minerals create a sticky problem for US competitors
Rare-earth minerals mined in the US need to be sent to China for processing.
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'Will I have existed?' The unprecedented plan to move an Arctic city
The world’s biggest iron ore tunnel mine is about to swallow the Swedish city of Kiruna. The company’s answer? Move the city
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Illegal gold mines destroying Amazon rainforest: study
An increase in illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest has reached "epidemic" proportions, a study has revealed. The report, released by the Amazon Socio-Environmental Geo-Referenced Information Project (RAISG) on Monday, exposed the damage that illicit mining for gold has had on forest and waterways, as well as on the life of indigenous tribes in the area.
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Germany shuts down its last black coal mine, ending almost 200 years of history
For almost two centuries, miners have been extracting coal from pits in Germany’s Ruhr valley, which the country used to power its once-burgeoning steel mills and produce electricity. It’s largely thanks to coal that Germany stepped out of the Industrial Revolution as an industrial powerhouse. Today, the country is the wealthiest in Europe, by a high margin, and the 4th largest economy in the world.
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Global Initiative Mines Retired Hard Disk Drives for Materials and Magnets
Every year in the United States, roughly 20 million hard drives are retired from data centers
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A Major Coal Company Went Bust. Its Bankruptcy Filing Shows That It Was Funding Climate Change Denialism.
Cloud Peak Energy gave contributions to leading think tanks that have attacked the link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change.
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Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
An Australian company's plan to mine a fossil-rich site in New Zealand to produce pig food has been described as unjustifiable vandalism. A campaign is under way to protect the site in perpetuity.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Other Crisis
An investigation by the DRC-based PREMICONGO, supported by the Dutch-based watchdog coalition GOOD Electronics Network, elucidates the brutal mechanics of foreign investment in the country’s mineral-rich Katanga region, including labor abuse, epidemic pollution, displacement, and corruption. Researchers accuse both foreign corporate investors and the Congolese state of perpetuating an oppressive, economically devastating, and environmentally unsustainable system of plunder.
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Coal mining's potential resurgence in Tasmania prompts concerns from farmers
New coal mining exploration is getting support from the Tasmanian Government, but some farmers say they are not being adequately informed about potential developments on their land.
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This Alaska mine could generate $1 billion a year. Is it worth the risk to salmon?
A giant open-pit copper and gold dig above Alaska's Bristol Bay could yield sales of more than $20 billion in two decades, but Pebble Mine would place the world's greatest wild salmon run at risk forever.
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Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining
Demand is soaring for the metal cobalt, an essential ingredient in batteries and abundant on the seabed.
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