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...
Category : Base metals
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...
Fitch forecasts lower copper prices for 2023
The revision is caused by weaker-than-expected economic recovery in China and fears of further rate hikes in the US. The 2023 average annual copper price...
Nevada lithium mine leads to ‘green colonialism’ accusations
In the high Nevadan desert near the Oregon border lies an enormous deposit of lithium, a metal that is essential in the production of electric...
Challenges to the sustainability of deep-sea mining
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...
Cornish Metals provides South Crofty tin project update
For years, the tin price index in Europe depended largely on foreign supply. However, Vancouver-headquartered Cornish Mining plans to start pumping out groundwater from its...
Swedish mineral company Grangex expects to complete acquisition of Norwegian Arctic mine this year
The Swedish mineral company Grangex expects to complete the acquisition of the Sydvaranger iron ore mine in Northern Norway during 2023. In an update from...
Greenland Resources Signs a Letter of Intent With Outokumpu to Strengthen Their Future Supply Chain of Low-Emission High-Quality Molybdenum
Greenland Resources announced the Company has signed a letter of intent (“LOI”) with Outokumpu Europe Oy (“Outokumpu”) for the supply of a significant amount of...
Toxic metal mining waste could impact 23 million people
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...