Mining News

Posted July 30, 2012:

• One in Five Streams Damaged by Mine Pollution in Southern West Virginia

Posted July 24, 2012:

• Locating Gold and Other Minerals: New Method Uncovers Half-Million Ton Mineral Deposit in Rough Mountain Terrain
• Mangroves: A Filter for Heavy Metals

Posted July 17, 2012:

• Autonomous Robot Maps Ship Hulls for Mines

Posted July 16, 2012:

• To Clean Up the Mine, Let Fungus Reproduce
• Fracking's Footprint on Pennsylvania Forests

Posted July 13, 2012:

• Caution Needed With New Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards: New Model Provides Lifecycle Analysis of 'Well-to-Wheel' Oil Sands Emissions

Posted July 11, 2012:

• Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis Using Strawberry Tree Leaf

Posted July 10, 2012:

• Copper from Car Brakes and Mining Is Making Salmon Prone to Predators

Posted July 6, 2012:

• E-Waste: Annual Gold, Silver 'Deposits' in New High-Tech Goods Worth $21B; Less Than 15% Recovered

Posted July 5, 2012:

• Turning History's 'Lost' Into 'Found': Pictorial History-Map of Santa Catarina Ixtepeji, a Village in Mexico Rediscovered

Posted June 28, 2012:

• Earth's Oldest Known Impact Crater Found in Greenland

Posted June 6, 2012:

• New Secrets from 'Bay of the Pirates' Warship That Sunk 2,300 Years Ago

Posted May 29, 2012:

• Chemical Fingerprinting Tracks the Travels of Little Brown Bats

Posted May 21, 2012:

• Toxic Mercury, Accumulating in the Arctic, Springs from a Hidden Source

Posted May 2, 2012:

• Mining for Heat: Abandoned Mine Tunnels Might Ferry Geothermal Energy from Deep Underground

Posted April 26, 2012:

• Space Law Expert: Before First Asteroids Are Mined, Legal Framework Must Be Improved

Posted April 23, 2012:

• Common Environmental Contaminant, Cadmium, Linked to Rapid Breast Cancer Cell Growth

Posted April 11, 2012:

• Data Mining Opens the Door to Predictive Neuroscience
• Hybrid Copper-Gold Nanoparticles Convert CO₂

Posted March 29, 2012:

• Scientists Refine Earth's Clock: Some Events in Planet's History Happened More Recently Than Previously Thought

Posted March 27, 2012:

• Capsule for Removing Radioactive Contamination from Milk, Fruit Juices, Other Beverages

Posted March 26, 2012:

• Using Twitter to Predict Financial Markets
• Saving Habitat Key to Songbird's Survival

Posted March 21, 2012:

• Colourful River Crabs: Newly Discovered and Already Threatened by Mining Project

Posted March 16, 2012:

• NASA Sees Cyclone Lua Strengthening for March 17 Landfall

Posted February 22, 2012:

• Oil Sands Pollution Comparable to a Large Power Plant

Posted February 16, 2012:

• Arsenic Supply at Highest Risk of Shortages

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 15, 2011:

• Tool Detects Patterns Hidden in Vast Data Sets

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 17, 2011:

• New Class of Antimalarial Compounds Discovered

Posted November 8, 2011:

• Twitter Tweets Chart the Social Whirl

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 11, 2011:

• New 'Genome Mining' Technique Streamlines Discovery from Nature

Posted October 10, 2011:

• Critical Minerals Ignite Geopolitical Storm

Posted October 6, 2011:

• Mine-Hunting Software Helping Doctors to Identify Rare Cells in Human Cancer

Posted September 15, 2011:

• New Report on Creating Clinical Public Use Microdata Files

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

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