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Brazilian court clears BHP, Vale, and Samarco of charges in 2015 dam disaster

A court in Belo Horizonte ruled that state prosecutors failed to prove that "individual actions" directly contributed to the collapse of the dam.

Bruno Venditti | November 14, 2024 | 10:00 am

Deep sea mining puts $560 billion in land extraction at risk — report

Deep sea mining is expected to negatively affect countries that…

MINING.COM Editor | November 14, 2024 | 1:00 am

Ross Beaty awarded TNM’s lifetime achievement award

Ross Beaty flipped the laptop around and pointed its camera…

Colin McClelland | November 8, 2024 | 6:00 am

How resource ‘classification debt’ chips away at miners’ growth and investor trust

Over the past decade, resource misclassification has saddled the mining…

Henry Lazenby | October 18, 2024 | 2:00 pm

Site visit: Liberty Gold fast tracks past-producing Black Pine in Idaho

Salt Lake City, Utah – Liberty Gold’s (TSX: LGD) vice-president…

Henry Lazenby | October 18, 2024 | 9:00 am

Chilean MP, NGOs demand halt to Nutrex exploration project at Juncal Andean Park

Chilean MP María Francisca Bello, who belongs to President Gabriel Boric’s Social Convergence Party, joined forces with environmental organizations from the Aconcagua […]

Staff Writer | April 21, 2024 | 8:26 am

Emirati company to invest $550 million in Argentinian lithium project

United Mining Projects Corporation, through Marhen Lithium, wants to develop the Rio Grande Sur lithium brine salar project in Catamarca.

Staff Writer | April 21, 2024 | 7:03 am

Illegal workers arrested at Posco Argentina operation

Argentina’s National Migrations Directorate, National Labour Directorate and Federal Police carried out an operation in the northwestern Salta province that ended up […]

Staff Writer | April 14, 2024 | 12:43 pm

Elder hurt in violent clash between Argentinian Indigenous community, police over mining project

Representatives from the Peñas Negras Indigenous community, in northwestern Argentina, clashed with heavily armed police officers who were escorting Elevado Gold personnel […]

Staff Writer | April 14, 2024 | 5:34 am

JV Video: Cordoba advances Alacran copper project in Colombia

Cordoba Minerals (TSXV: CDB; US-OTC: CDB) expects to get environmental approval for its US$420.4-million Alacran copper project in Colombia by December, president […]

Colin McClelland | April 12, 2024 | 10:27 am

Dry Andes more sensitive to lithium mining than previously thought – study

US-based researchers conducted the widest-ever hydrological tracer analysis of the Dry Andes region in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia and found that the […]

Staff Writer | April 7, 2024 | 6:45 am

Ecuadorian human rights organization denounces criminalization of anti-mining protest

Ecuador’s Ecumenical Human Rights Commission (CEDHU) issued a couple of statements this week denouncing the criminalization of anti-mining protests by law enforcement […]

Staff Writer | March 24, 2024 | 7:10 am

Ecuadorian government releases controversial prior consultation manual

Following a visit by Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and Energy Minister Andrea Arrobo to Canada in the context of the 2024 Prospectors […]

Staff Writer | March 10, 2024 | 7:04 pm

Worker’s death spurs strike action at Codelco’s Radomiro Tomic mine

Following the death of Ana Camila Rojas Farías in an accident on March 8, unionized workers blocked Codelco’s Radomiro Tomic copper mine […]

Staff Writer | March 9, 2024 | 2:10 pm

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Brazilian court clears BHP, Vale, and Samarco of charges in 2015 dam disaster

Deep sea mining puts $560 billion in land extraction at risk — report

Ross Beaty awarded TNM’s lifetime achievement award

How resource ‘classification debt’ chips away at miners’ growth and investor trust

Site visit: Liberty Gold fast tracks past-producing Black Pine in Idaho

Chilean MP, NGOs demand halt to Nutrex exploration project at Juncal Andean Park

Emirati company to invest $550 million in Argentinian lithium project

Illegal workers arrested at Posco Argentina operation

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