by faster | Jun 9, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: Reuters DATE: June 9, 2021 SNIP: Vale SA’s decomissioned Xingu dam is at “imminent risk of collapsing,” according to a statement on Wednesday by the Regional Labor Department for the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The Xingu tailings, or mining...
by faster | May 27, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: May 27, 2021 SNIP: Rare and disturbing aerial photographs have laid bare the devastation being inflicted on Brazil’s largest reserve for indigenous people by thousands of wildcat goldminers whose illegal activities have accelerated under the...
by faster | Feb 8, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Atlantic DATE: February 8, 2021 SNIP: Life as we know it is carbon based. But every organism requires other elements, too, including nitrogen and phosphorus. Nitrogen is the basis of all proteins, from enzymes to muscles, and the nucleic acids that encode...
by faster | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: Mining.com DATE: January 19, 2021 SNIP: As developed economies adopt net-zero emissions targets and focus on “green” recovery, metals and minerals may one day supplant oil as the world’s top traded commodity. The price of many base and precious metals have...
by faster | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Narwhal DATE: December 11, 2020 SNIP: The Indian River watershed, which used to provide “sweeping” wetland habitat south of Dawson City, Yukon, has been all but destroyed by placer mining, Darren Taylor, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation’s director of natural...
