Mining done right seen as possible counterbalance against tourism boom
By Bruce Finley
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ALMA>> Colorado mountain residents got so frustrated by the gold and gravel mining churning through wetlands along headwaters of the South Platte River they took oversight into thei...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Gaze for a moment at your smartphone. The circuitry contains a hard-toget metal called tantalum. The jingling speaker requires neodymium. For that jangly-lit screen, you need yttrium. The battery is made with lithium.
How to obtain enough of these so-called...
An underground coal fire is one of the potential causes investigators are looking into
By John Aguilar
The Denver Post
“It is impossible to extinguish this fire smoke and other gases from the fire emptying themselves through chimneys reaching to the surface in many places, make it look like...
By John Bartlett
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Plans to expand lithium mining in Chile, the world’s second-largest producer, hit political roadblocks this week, raising new questions about supplies of a metal that is in high demand as the world transitions...
By Jack Healy and Mike Baker
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YELLOW PINE, IDAHO » Net in hand, Louis Reuben waded into the frigid waters where his ancestors once fished, long before Idaho’s rivers were dammed and contaminated, before the Nez Perce were driven off their land when white miners struck gold....
By Louisa Willcox
Writers on the Range
This year marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most spectacular conservation victories in recent history: the defeat of a massive gold mine planned for the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park.
Called the New World mine, it was proposed by the Canadian ...
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NARSAQ, GREENLAND » This huge, remote and barely habited island is known for frozen landscapes, remote fjords and glaciers that heave giant sheets of ice into the sea.
But increasingly Greenland is known for something else: rare minerals. It’s all becaus...
By Michael Hill
The Associated Press
An obstacle to large-scale bitcoin mining is finding enough cheap energy to run the huge, power-gobbling computer arrays that create and transact cryptocurrency. One mining operation in central New York came up with a novel solution that has alarmed env...
By Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration Thursday took the first steps that would allow it to begin the process of protecting Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay, one of the world’s most valuable sockeye salmon fisheries that also sits atop ...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will consider a ban on new mining on large expanses of public lands in Western states to protect a struggling bird species, the greater sage grouse.
The Interior...
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COAL INDUSTRY
Ex-CEO seeks lung benefit By The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.VA.» Former coal CEO Robert E. Murray, who has fought federal regulations on the industry, has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Labor for b...
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NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED By Matthew Brown and Steve KarnowskiThe Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track mining projects and could offer grants and loans to help companies pay for equipment, a...
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SCALING BACK ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track environmental reviews of dozens of major energy and infrastructure projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, inclu...
Shared from the 8/9/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Theresa Davis
The Albuquerque Journal
SHIPROCK, N.M
On Aug. 5, 2015, Environmental Protection Agency contractors breached a mine tunnel at the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, sending 3 million gallons of acid mine drainage into the...
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DURANGO»The Environmental Protection Agency plans to temporarily seal a bulkhead at one of the most polluted mines in a Colorado region as part of a study of the region’s water. The EPA plans to close a bulkhead valve at the ...
Grand Canyon uranium mining ban upheld as supreme court declines to hear challenge
Court says extraction ban is among cases it refuses to review, in victory for environmental groups and Native American communities
Joanna Walters in New York
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Three generations of Havasupai m...
A uranium company headquartered in Colorado "lobbied extensively" for President Donald Trump to reduce the size of Bears Ears National Monument, according to an investigation by the New York Times.
The implications of the story written by Hiroko Tabuchi were staggering: an area of long-he...
WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced late Friday that he will not scrap the agency’s 2014 determination that a large-scale mining operation could irreparably harm Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed.
His decision, which falls short of blocking a proposed gold...
