A federal court in Arizona denied Apache Stronghold’s request for a temporary restraining order to present the U.S. government from publishing a final environmental impact statement on a copper mine project, which would permit the sale of 2,422-acres of land that the plaintiff’s claim is “Western Apache land” under an 1852 treaty.
Read moreThe tribal group Apache Stronghold sued the United States to prevent the transfer of federal lands to mining interests that would “illegally annihilate” a “Western Apache cultural property known to the Apache since time immemorial as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel.”
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Israeli diamond and minerals magnate Beny Steinmetz went on trial in Switzerland on Monday on charges of corruption and forging documents in an alleged bid to win lavish iron ore mining concessions in Guinea by paying millions to a former wife of late President Lansana Conte.
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Several “suspected terrorists” were arrested and more than 40,000 sticks of dynamite and detonator cords for illegal gold mining — a new source of funding for armed groups in the Sahel — were seized in a joint operation with the U.N., Interpol said on Monday.
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Aboriginal landowners have called for a “reset” in Australia’s lucrative mining sector after an inquiry pilloried Rio Tinto for blowing up a 46,000-year-old heritage site to expand an iron ore mine.
Read moreA land swap between agrochemical giant Simplot and the federal government lacked proper environmental analysis and the resulting expansion of Simplot’s gypsum stack will harm the area’s water, flora and fauna, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation say in a federal complaint.
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Increased gold mining activity in Peru is leading to a dangerous ecological threat as newly dug pits have increased mercury exposure to wildlife and people, according to new research revealed Friday.
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In a major about-face, the Trump administration denied a vital permit for a proposed gold and copper mining operation in Alaska on Wednesday — finding the project would spoil thousands of acres of wetlands and open waters in violation of the Clean Water Act.
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The Trump administration announced plans Thursday that ease protections for sage grouse in the West, prompting an outcry by critics who say the move paves the way for widespread mining and drilling and ignores a federal court ruling.
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Lines of trucks carrying piles of rock crisscross Finland’s rugged Terrafame mine, which sits 186 miles below the Arctic Circle and is Europe’s largest source of nickel for electric car batteries.
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Brazilians seeking $6.3 billion in compensation from Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP over a massive dam failure in 2015 suffered a major setback after a British judge ruled Monday that their case belongs in Brazil’s courts.
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The world’s largest pink diamond mine has shut its doors after exhausting its reserves of the expensive gems, global mining giant Rio Tinto said Tuesday.
Read moreSouth Dakota homeowners accuse the state of failing to tell them their properties had been mined for gypsum below ground for years, an activity that turned the land into unstable Swiss cheese and has made their homes uninhabitable.
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The Trump administration’s rollback of environmental regulations has paved the way for a mining company to skirt federal permitting and commence a controversial project near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp.
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A controversial mining project in northern Minnesota had yet another day in court Tuesday morning as the Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments in a case seeking further review of its permits.
Read moreA federal judge denied a mining company’s motion to dismiss Washington state’s claims that it violated the Clean Water Act. The state has plausibly shown the corporation continues to discharge pollutants into the groundwater instead of maintaining a “capture zone” for pollutants.
Read moreMine operator Sterling Centrecorp must pay $32 million to cover the government’s cleanup costs at a gold mine in the Sierra Nevada mountains which contaminated local groundwater with dangerous levels of arsenic, the Ninth Circuit ruled.
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Rio Tinto is facing accusations it “side-stepped” responsibility to clean up poisonous waste from a closed mine on Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville island in a complaint filed Tuesday in Australia.
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Poland moved closer to ending its heavy reliance on coal Friday as the government and miners’ unions agreed a landmark plan to phase out mines by 2049.
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With the coronavirus devastating jobs across the country, desperate Indonesians are flocking to illegal gold mines as the soaring price of the precious metal overrides the risk to their lives and the environment.
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