Tag: mining

Mining atlas helps map Australia’s clean energy future

EARTH
The Atlas of Australian Mine Waste was launched this week by Geoscience Australia in partnership with RMIT and University of Queensland researchers and geological...

Separating mining explosions from earthquakes in South Korea

EARTHQUAKES
South Korea is a relatively quiet country, seismically speaking, but a recent study identified more than 182,000 small seismic events—135,000 of which were related...

Gold mining is one of the world’s most destructive and unnecessary industries—here’s how to end it

MINERALS
The 16th-century King Ferdinand of Spain sent his subjects abroad with the command: "Get gold, humanely if possible, but at all hazards, get gold."...

Moving house: Arctic mining town’s move divides residents

MINERALS
Each time he boasts about the colossal relocation of his town center in the Swedish Arctic, Kiruna mayor Gunnar Selberg gets a dressing-down from...

Vanishing sands: How sand mining is stripping away earth’s beaches

ENVIRONMENT
In Morocco, up to 60 million tons of sand are bulldozed, scraped or shoveled off beaches each year to be used as aggregate in...

Can gold mining be more sustainable?

MINERALS
In a review paper recently published in the journal Land Degradation and Development, Shrabya Timsina and Nora Hardy focused on the effects of surface...

New research finds deep-sea mining noise pollution will stretch hundreds of miles

OCEANOGRAPHY
New research published today in the peer-reviewed journal Science examines the potential for underwater noise pollution from seabed mining operations, which could affect the...

Mars as a base for asteroid exploration and mining

MARS
Mining the asteroids for resources like iron, precious metals, water, or other valuable species may someday become profitable. Mining will probably starting with near...

Humans have big plans for mining in space, but there are many things holding us back

ASTRONOMY
Like Earth, planetary bodies such as the moon, Mars, asteroids and comets contain substantial deposits of valuable resources. This has caught the attention of...
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