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Family men or forest destroyers? Meet the miners living off the Amazon’s gold

The Amazon has more than 4,470 illegal mining sites, more than half of them in Brazil.

Reuters | January 21, 2021 | 10:16 am

Decarbonization gets $501bn investment in 2020 – report

The largest sector was renewable energy, according to BloombergNEF's new…

MINING.com Editor | January 20, 2021 | 11:53 am

Miners now saviours in green transition

The whole system has to be rebuilt, and that is…

Nelson Bennett - Business in Vancouver | January 19, 2021 | 11:02 am

Researchers use niobium, molybdenum to find heat-tolerant alloys for aircraft

Japanese researchers are testing materials that can stand high temperatures…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | January 18, 2021 | 6:16 am

More than precious: silver’s role in the new energy era

Long known as a precious metal, silver also has industrial…

Nicholas LePan - Visual Capitalist | January 15, 2021 | 3:07 pm

Here is how being math savvy can make you a better miner

Today, professionals can improve their valuation by using Geostatistics, a group of techniques that model spatial processes and allow estimation of values at unsampled locations.

edumine | March 14, 2016 | 10:03 am

CHARTS: Mining slowdown worsening job prospects in Canada

While the shock has certainly been the largest for oil-producing regions, the issue has rippled through to other industries and provinces.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 11, 2016 | 9:10 am

Two years after Mexico’s biggest mine spill villagers still don’t trust their drinking water

Here's what went wrong and how the impacts could have been minimal.

edumine | February 29, 2016 | 11:45 am

The story of the great mining project that wasn’t so

Here’s how you can prevent this from happening to you

edumine | February 16, 2016 | 9:58 am

UK scientists develop new method to find copper deposits

Technique likely to become an inexpensive way to uncover rich copper deposits.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 5, 2016 | 3:28 am

Northern College welding student honoured by Canadian Welding Association

Deborah Mates, the Director of the CWA Foundation, was at the Kirkland Lake campus on Monday to recognize Northern College’s third year Welding Engineering co-op student Andy Yang for his passion and academic excellence in welding.

Northern College | January 19, 2016 | 8:52 am

Gemstone ring raffle to fund female mining student

A Faberge amethyst ring is to be raffled in London with the aim of raising £5,000 for a female to study at Camborne School of Mines (CSM) as part of a wider initiative to encourage more women into the mining profession.

University of Exeter | November 27, 2015 | 3:54 pm