AI can potentially estimate global environmental destruction due to road development for mining
Recent tests of an AI system showed that it can detect how poorly regulated road development for mining, logging and land clearing is triggering dramatic increases in environmental disruption.
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Vale sees no indication of environmental breach at suspended mines
Brazilian miner Vale does not see signs of environmental or social breach at two of its mines whose operating licenses were suspended this week, Vale Base Metals chair Mark Cutifani said on Friday.
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Glencore’s prized Canadian coal mines come with rising environmental scrutiny
Mining News Pro - A Glencore-led consortium’s successful $9 billion bid for Teck Resources’ steelmaking coal unit could face tougher environmental clean-up obligations, as water pollution from the mines comes under increasing scrutiny in the US and Canada.
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Teck to re-do environmental permit for Quebrada Blanca expansion in Chile
Mining News Pro - Canadian miner Teck Resources has scrapped a previously submitted environmental permit application to expand a mill at its Quebrada Blanca copper mine in Chile in order to draft a new version, it said on Tuesday.
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Lundin secures environmental permit to extend Candelaria mine life
Mining News Pro - Canada’s Lundin Mining (TSX: LUN) can proceed with a plan to extend the productive life of its Candelaria copper mine in Chile after local authorities approved a revised environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the operation.
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Canada opposes commercial seabed mining without environmental assessment, regulations
Mining News Pro - Canada is against commercial seabed mining in international waters without a comprehensive understanding of its environmental impacts and a robust regulatory regime, the federal government said on Monday.
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One of the priorities of Khuzestan Steel Company is of environmental projects
Mining News Pro - The 36th meeting of the follow-up committee for environmental projects of Khuzestan Steel Company was held under the chairmanship of the deputy CEO for staff affairs and social responsibilities.
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Codelco loses environmental licence for Ecuador copper project
Mining News Pro - A provincial appeals court in Ecuador has stripped Codelco and local joint venture partner Enami of its environmental license for the Llurimagua copper project, according to a ruling published Wednesday.
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Remarkable environmental activities of Iran Alumina Company in Taash Mine
Mining News Pro - CEO of Iran Alumina Company said: Iran Alumina's environmental measures in Tash Mine have been unprecedented.
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Fortuna Silver stock tanks as Mexico challenges environmental approvals for San Jose mine
Mining News Pro - Fortuna Silver Mine stock fell 11% on Thursday after a decision to re-asses the extension of the San Jose mine Environmental Impact Authorization.
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Maduro exhorts Venezuelan army to combat environmental destruction caused by illegal gold mining
Mining News Pro - Venezuela’s head of state Nicolás Maduro publicly asked the Operational Strategic Commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Fanb) to ramp up efforts against illegal gold mining in the southeastern Amazonas and Bolívar states.
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Antofagasta faces charges, fines for environmental breaches in Chile
Mining News Pro - The agency said on Wednesday that audits carried out at the mine site between June 2019 and January 2020 confirmed a community complain. This claimed the operation’s use of water was a threat to the Loa frog.
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Environmental and human rights assessment of Rio Tinto’s former Panguna copper mine begins
Mining News Pro -The Panguna mine was operated by BCL, majority-owned by Rio Tinto, for 17 years from 1972 until 1989, when operations were suspended due to an uprising against the mine and subsequent civil war. A peace agreement was signed in 2001.
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New environmentally friendly method to extract metals from Li-ion batteries launched in Canada
Mining News Pro - Engineers at the University of Toronto are proposing a new, more sustainable method to mine lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from lithium-ion batteries that have reached the end of their lives.
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Environmentally friendly technology allows for efficient separation of REEs
Mining News Pro - Researchers at the US’s Idaho National Laboratory have taken a water treatment technology and adapted it for selectively separating rare earth elements and transition metals.
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Colombia may require environmental licenses for mining exploration
Mining News Pro - Colombia could require mining firms get environmental licenses for exploration in order to protect the environment, increase state control and prevent conflict between communities and extractive companies, the environment minister said on Thursday.
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SQM gets green light on environmental plan
Mining News Pro - Chile’s environmental regulator said on Tuesday it approved a compliance plan for lithium producer SQM, a step forward for the company’s operations following a years-long sanctioning process for environmental infractions.
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Khuzestan’s director general of environmental protection;
Appreciation for the implementation of the environmental projects of Khuzestan Steel
Mining News Pro - Khuzestan’s director general of environmental protection appreciated the environmental projects of Khuzestan Steel.
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Hochschild Mining granted environmental permit for Brazil gold project
Mining News Pro - Precious metals producer Hochschild Mining has been granted a key permit that allows it to build a processing plan and kick off mine pre-stripping at the Mara Rosa gold project in Brazil’s central state of Goías.
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Canadian government sued by environmental groups over 20 oil and gas “sleeper” permits
Mining News Pro - Two environmental groups are suing the Canadian federal government over 20 oil and gas “sleeper” exploration permits originally granted off the coast of British Columbia in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Environmental groups ask Tesla to stop nickel plans in Indonesia
Mining News Pro - Environmental groups urged Tesla on Monday to reconsider its plans for nickel investment in Indonesia, the world’s top producer of the material, as ESG scrutiny mounts in an industry crucial to the electric vehicle revolution.
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CSIRO contracted to plan environmental monitoring for deep-sea nodule collection
Mining News Pro - The Metals Company (Nasdaq: TMC) announced Tuesday that its Australian subsidiary, The Metals Company Australia Pty Ltd., has entered into a research funding agreement with a consortium of institutions led by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to create a framework for the development of an ecosystem-based management and monitoring plan (EMMP) for its proposed deep-sea polymetallic nodule collection operations in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific Ocean.
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Real environmental impact of nuclear power generation revealed
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Japan’s Ritsumeikan University analyzed the environmental impact of nuclear power generation through an unusual measure – the volume of resources extracted from the lithosphere during the life cycle of this process.
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Colombia miners brace for environmental crackdown
Mining News Pro - Miners operating in Colombia are bracing for tighter environmental rules as the two anti-establishment presidential candidates that made it to a runoff on June 19 have promised stricter environmental rules and controls over the industry.
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Albemarle facing environmental charges in Chile for over-extracting lithium-rich brine
Mining News Pro - Chile’s Environment Superintendence (SMA in Spanish) launched a legal procedure against Albemarle for over-extracting brine at its Atacama salt flat operation.
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