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The switch away from fossil fuels to renewable energy is going hand-in-hand with a massive expansion of mining for essential minerals.

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Despite the ban on rat-hole coal mining, the fossil fuel has been extracted and transported illegally for years in Meghalaya.

Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar bin Ibrahim AlKhorayef announced that the industry and mining sector is working with relevant authorities to attract 50 investment opportunities worth more than SAR 96 billion in the machinery and equipment sector. AlKhorayef indicated that among the largest projects achieved during 2021…

A great execution with a mining cannon makes for brilliant results

Brazilian police and environmental protection agents were ambushed by illegal gold miners on the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the Amazon on Monday and four miners were shot dead in the exchange of gunfire, a government statement said.

A Green New Deal requires large amounts of fossil fuels, significantly worsening ecological overshoot, argues Jack Santa Barbara

The Mexican Senate approved in an express session on Saturday a package of laws including two constitutional reforms and a new mining law rebuked by the mining chamber and Canada.

The umbrella organisation of fishermen comprising trade unions across political affiliations will begin with a march to Raj Bhavan on May 5 to register protest against sea mining for building and mineral sands and other materials of commercial value. The Union government is going ahead with sea mining policy despite…