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 to accelerate production of its own critical ...
Jakarta Globe1d
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.
Grist1d
Most critical minerals are on Indigenous lands. Will miners respect tribal sovereignty?
Grist spoke with five experts to understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of ...
Grist on MSN2d
Mining is an environmental and human rights nightmare. Battery recycling can ease that.
Rows of dead batteries stretch across some 30 acres of high desert, organized in piles and boxes that are covered to shield ...
The Jakarta Post3d
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, ...
Opinion
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...
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 ...