Portugal’s Barroso lithium mine project faces villagers’ ire
An ancient farming village in the Portuguese mountains is fighting plans for an opencast lithium mine right on its doorstep. The lithium would be used...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina has been ordered to stop ore exploitation in Vareš
The Secretariat of the Berne Convention at the Council of Europe ordered the competent authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to stop the exploitation of ores...
Big mining’s downstream steel emissions
BHP and Rio Tinto can expect to face growing investor pressure on their Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Neither company has a measurable Scope...
Mining companies can lead on climate–but only if they break from the past
According to the International Energy Agency, the green mineral market is seeing a strong increase in investment as the world sets out to meet its...
Algeria: Environmental activist takes on Australian mining company
Algeria is being seriously affected by climate change, yet authorities have agreed to a dangerous new lead and zinc mine, a joint venture with South...
Monitoring mining emissions with satellites: New era of remote environmental surveillance
Africa’s Copperbelt, spanning Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, is no stranger to the world of mineral extraction. This region alone generated an impressive...
Norway, a New Mining Nation?
The energy transition and ‘green’ technologies spark enormous demands for minerals. Norway set out to become a supplier of raw materials which, in the current...
Mining the Deep: Deep-Sea Metals Extraction Is Driving Innovative Tech, But Poses Potential Problems Too
Mining has long been one of the primary sources of the materials used to drive technological breakthroughs. The history of mining includes the retrieval of...
Metal-mining pollution impacts 23 million people worldwide
At least 23 million people around the world live on flood-plains contaminated by potentially harmful concentrations of toxic waste from metal-mining activity, according to a...
Mining Old Sites Can be a Shortcut to More Copper for the Energy Transition
Billions of dollars are being poured into new mining projects across the globe as the energy transition drives a wave of exploration, but getting those...
