On Monday, a joint proposal was unveiled by the United States, Canada, and various Indigenous groups to tackle the longstanding issue of pollution stemming from coal mining activities in British Columbia. This pollution has been identified as a significant contributor to waterway contamination and detrimental effects on fisheries along both sides of the U.S.-Canada border […]
In the self-proclaimed cobalt capital of the world, Kolwezi, a contentious narrative unfolds as the demand for critical minerals surges amid the global clean energy transition. The Gécamines neighborhood, historically tied to the Congolese state company Société Générale des Carrières et des Mines (Gécamines), is witnessing a significant upheaval due to cobalt and copper mining
According to a Monday Invesco study of central banks and sovereign wealth funds, more nations are returning their gold holdings as insurance against the kind of sanctions the West has imposed on Russia. The financial market collapse of last year resulted in significant losses for sovereign money managers, who are now “fundamentally” reevaluating their business
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South Crofty is a part of a surge of mining activity sweeping the southwest of England that aims to revive a sector that, up until recently, appeared to be all but dead. Companies looking to profit from the spike in demand for the raw materials essential to the transition to clean energy are concentrating on
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The current year has been quite significant for Scandinavian mining. Both Sweden and Norway have had some bigger breakthroughs in their respective mining industries. First of all, we will look at the Swedish mining company LKAB who has made a massive discovery at the beginning of the year. According to Swedish mining corporation LKAB, the
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The state government of Queensland has committed cash to “reinvigorate” an abandoned facility that was once among the richest gold mines in the world. The Mount Morgan gold mine in central Queensland was formerly one of the biggest in the world, but it has been abandoned and polluted with acid water since 1990. With intentions
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Latin America may be on the rise. Governments and businesses around the world are racing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the region is a major supplier of the minerals that underpin solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. But extracting these minerals is expensive and has environmental and social consequences. “Everybody wants to stop
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Lithium triangles are usually in the limelight, but there are players in other regions who are entering the lithium market or expanding their presence in the lithium market. Brazil, for example, has been producing lithium from pegmatite rocks since the 1970s. This is the second most concentrated form of metal, mainly for ceramics and glass.
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Chile currently has the largest proved reserves in the world, despite having half the resource potential of Argentina and Bolivia. In terms of total lithium content, it is second only to Australia, which surpassed the Andean country for the first time in 2017. However, Chile’s production costs are about one-third that of Australia’s Pacific Ocean,
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After decades of misfires, Bolivia wants to finally find a successful way to harness the world’s highest reserves of lithium, a mineral essential to the global transition from fossil fuels. Bolivia has 21 million tonnes of lithium brine reserves, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), but so far we have not been able
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