Gold and Copper Prices May Soar as Miners Walk Out

Indonesia - Miners strike threatens to rock Gold and Copper markets around the globe.Thousands of mining workers have gone on strike in Indonesia's Papua province. The mine run by the U.S. firm Freeport McMoRan is...

Killing West Virginia for coal

Destroying the environment Driving through West Virginia, visually one of the most beautiful states, you experience the vistas and the climbs to the top of high peaks, the valleys and the rivers, the forests and...

Illegal Mining Fuels DRC Conflict

Government crackdown appears to have done little to curb unlawful trade funding armed groups. By Taylor Toeka - International Justice - ICC ...

State on perpetual welfare - West Virginia

The State of West Virginia, a spinoff from Virginia at the time of the civil war, one that aligned with the North, has been on perpetual welfare ever since. The state is the poorest in the nation and remains so...

Ecuador Gold Mine Cave-In Traps Four Miners Underground

A Cave-In at an Ecuador Gold Mine Has Trapped Four Miners Underground Authorities are unclear if the miners are alive at this time, but they were trapped about 150 metres below the surface. The name of the mine has not been released, but it is a gold mine located in the...

Chilean authorities prep trapped miners for long rescue operation

Miners are trapped from 5th of august and it will take 3 to 4 month to dig the tunnel to bring them out by that time they have to stay there food supply has restored to them " SANTIAGO, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chilean...

* Six killed in cave-in at Venezuela mine

Venezuela authorities has confermed the death of miners who were traped under the mines after an accident happened there ."Caracas, Aug 25 (AFP) A cave-in at an abandoned gold mine in eastern Venezuela has killed...

India Bars Mine in Big Ruling

Indian government is commited to protect the inviornment so inviornment impact analysis has taken the centrestage by taking the decisions in mining operation."NEW DELHI, INDIA—In a landmark decision that could bode ill for dozens of other mining and steel projects in...

Chile Miners: Trapped Chilean Miners Still Alive After 17 Days

33 Chilean Miners Found Alive After 17 Days: Rescue Could Take Months Thirty-three miners in Chile were finally able to communicate with the outside world after 17 days of being trapped in a collapsed copper mine...

Kalinganagar: The Bermuda Triangle In India

The Wikipedia states that Kalinga was an early kingdom in central-eastern India, which was a rich and fertile land, and was the scene of the bloody Kalinga War fought by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka the Great of Magadha circa 265 BCE. Several centuries, in a northern part of...

Senator Jim DeMint vs White House ‘Land Grab’ for National Parks

Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) takes to the Senate floor to discuss a leaked document that says the President intends to take large tracks of land and claim them as Parks Service monuments.  By doing so the tracks...

Sentinel-3 ESA’s Next Generation Satellite Scheduled to Launch in

Sentinel-3 satellite which is scheduled to launch in 2013 is the third in a series of five space missions European Space Agency (ESA) is developing for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. The missions main objective is to determine the...

Activists Block Oil Sands Mine In Alberta

Greenpeace activists have shut down a 155,000 barrel a day operation in Shell's Albian Sands mine just north of Fort McMurray, which is located in northern Alberta, Canada. The 25 activists from Canada, the U.S. and France are trying to attract attention to the...

Finding Gold within a resession - Join the new gold rush.

"COLUMBIA, Calif. -- Maybe it was the nail in Ray's head. Maybe it was the economy. His wife said one as much as the other drove the decision to auction off everything that wouldn't fit in the trailer and leave...

Daryl Hannah Arrested at Protest for Anti-Mountain Top Removal

Actress Daryl Hannah and former West Virginia secretary of state Ken Hechler were among two dozen people arrested in West Virginia yesterday at a protest against anti-mountain top removal mining. They were...

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