Mining News

Posted February 8, 2012:

• Arsenic Criticality Poses Concern for Modern Technology

Posted January 26, 2012:

• New Biodiversity Map of Andes Shows Species in Dire Need of Protection

Posted December 27, 2011:

• Badwater Basin: Death Valley Microbe May Spark Novel Biotech and Nanotech Uses

Posted December 19, 2011:

• What If If Virginia Lifts Ban on Uranium Mining? Report Identifies Health and Environmental Issues

Posted December 14, 2011:

• Mercury Releases Into the Atmosphere from Ancient to Modern Times

Posted December 12, 2011:

• Cumulative Impact of Mountaintop Mining Documented

Posted December 5, 2011:

• Study of Strong Ground Motion May Show Need to Modify Building Codes

Posted November 2, 2011:

• Australian Technology Aims to Make Storing Radioactive Waste Safer

Posted October 27, 2011:

• Novel Research Seeks to Locate Scotland's Next Gold Mine; Geologists Apply New Scientific Methods to Gold Prospecting

Posted October 19, 2011:

• New Evidence for the Oldest Oxygen-Breathing Life on Land

Posted October 18, 2011:

• How Close Is Too Close? Hydrofracking to Access Natural Gas Reservoirs Poses Risks to Surface Water, Researchers Say

Posted October 12, 2011:

• Metal Shortages Alert from Leading Geologists: Inexorable Demand for Consumer Goods Places Strain on Supply of Metals

Posted October 10, 2011:

• Critical Minerals Ignite Geopolitical Storm

Posted September 14, 2011:

• New Technology for Recovering Valuable Minerals from Waste Rock

Posted September 9, 2011:

• Towards Certification of East-African Green Garnet

Posted September 1, 2011:

• The Geophysicist's Guide to Striking It Rich

Posted August 24, 2011:

• Database of Water, Wastewater Pipeline Infrastructure Systems

Posted August 16, 2011:

• Gemini-Scout Robot Likely to Reach Trapped Miners Ahead of Rescuers

Posted August 2, 2011:

• Researchers Help Find Natural Products Potential of Frankia Bacteria

Posted August 1, 2011:

• The Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea

Posted July 27, 2011:

• Bacteria Can 'Fertilize' Copper-Polluted Soil

Posted July 11, 2011:

• Ancient Algae: Genetically Engineering a Path to New Energy Sources?

Posted June 29, 2011:

• Recycling: A New Source of Indispensible 'Rare Earth' Materials Mined Mainly in China

Posted June 23, 2011:

• Large Numbers of Birth Defects Seen Near Mountaintop Mining Operations

Posted June 22, 2011:

• Economic Cost of Weather May Total $485 Billion in US

Posted June 21, 2011:

• Highly Invasive Horse-Chestnut Leaf Miner Found Living in the Balkans by 1879

Posted June 17, 2011:

• Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterial Symbiont Promises Trove of Natural Products

Posted June 13, 2011:

• The Energy Debate: Coal Vs. Nuclear

Posted May 26, 2011:

• Dramatically Raising Low Metal Recycling Rates Part of Path to Green Economy

Posted May 16, 2011:

• Targeted Regeneration Could Be Key to Boosting Coalfield Communities, English Study Shows

Posted May 11, 2011:

• Silver Cycle: New Evidence for Natural Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles

Posted April 20, 2011:

• New Caledonia’s Lagoon: Better Understanding for Better Protection

Posted April 19, 2011:

• Gold Prices Spur Six-Fold Spike in Amazon Deforestation

Posted February 7, 2011:

• Using Mining by-Products to Reduce Algal Blooms

Posted January 25, 2011:

• Mercury in Bay Area Fish a Legacy of California Mining

Posted January 6, 2011:

• Sulfur Proves Important in the Formation of Gold Mines

Posted December 6, 2010:

• Fledgling Ecosystem in Former Open-Pit Coal Mine in Germany Lets Scientists Observe How Soil, Flora and Fauna Develop

Posted November 25, 2010:

• Oldest Salt Mine Known to Date Located in Azerbaijan
• The Impact of Mining in Bolivia

Posted November 17, 2010:

• Rare Earth Elements in US Not So Rare, Report Finds

Posted November 1, 2010:

• Scarcity of New Energy Minerals May Trigger Trade Wars, Expert Suggests
• Very Large Protected Areas Preserve Wilderness but Ignore Rare Species, Analysis Finds

Posted October 19, 2010:

• Disease in Rural China Linked to Polluted Coal

Posted September 15, 2010:

• Commercial-Scale Test of New Technology to Recover Coal from Sludge Successful

Posted September 12, 2010:

• Wildflower ‘armors’ Itself Against Disease

Posted August 30, 2010:

• Oilsands Mining and Processing Are Polluting the Athabasca River, Research Finds

Posted August 24, 2010:

• How Giant Tortoises, Alligators Thrived in High Arctic 50 Million Years Ago

Posted July 8, 2010:

• Why Some Communities Embrace Environmental Conservation and Others Don't

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