Canadian company seeks US permission to start deep-sea mining as outcry ensues
The Metals Company in Vancouver, Canada said late Thursday that it is seeking permission from the U.S. government to start ...
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Metalplant farms nickel instead of mining it
More than 700 nickel hyperaccumulators are known to science, but Metalplant chose O. chalcidica because it’s one of the best.
Europe races to secure critical minerals as global supply tensions mount
A top European Union official visited a strategic metals site in central Greece on Thursday, after the bloc announced plans ...
Jakarta Globe6d
Sludge Collapse Kills 1 At Chinese-Funded Nickel Plant in Morowali
The Indonesian victims were operating dump trucks on Saturday when they were engulfed by sludge-like material.
The Jakarta Post7d
One killed, two missing in latest work-related accident at IMIP
The Saturday incident occurred just a month after an employee of PT Ocean Sky Metal Industry (OSMI), one of IMIP’s tenants, ...
Houston Chronicle8d
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
As the demand for electric car batteries and smartphones grows, mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such as nickel and cobalt can be found in ...
High Teck: The Canadian miner bets its future on a copper mine in the Atacama Desert
The Canadian miner’s reinvention as a critical-metals player—via its massive copper mine in Chile’s Andean foothills— could ...
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Radiation exposure victims fight for compensation as nuclear weapons funding soars
Congress failed to pass legislation to compensate those poisoned by nuclear weapons activities. Meanwhile, money is flowing ...