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International Mines Rescue Competition unites mining community in raising safety standards

IMRC 2022 featured 22 teams from eight countries.

Staff Writer | October 5, 2022 | 3:58 pm

Iron Ore Company of Canada, CNA launch future workforce program for electricians

They are collaborating on the development of new skills for…

Staff Writer | October 4, 2022 | 6:00 am

Teck contributes $3.6m to support redevelopment, new teaching innovations at BCIT

$1 million was provided in capital funding to the Health…

Staff Writer | October 3, 2022 | 1:41 pm

Better geoscience communication can solve the mining industry’s image problem

How can we showcase the positives the mining industry has…

Courtney Onstad | September 29, 2022 | 10:20 am

Niobium could be key to supercapacitators

New research from Umeå University proposes the idea of using…

Staff Writer | September 29, 2022 | 5:16 am

How Afghanistan’s $1 trillion mining wealth sold the war

US media regurgitates a 2010 New York Times frontpage story on Afghanistan’s mineral riches based on a secret Pentagon memo and a 1977 Soviet geologic map.

Frik Els | August 27, 2021 | 12:19 pm

New sensor able to detect rare earths in acid mine waste

Researchers at Penn State University developed a luminescent sensor that can detect terbium in complex environmental samples.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | August 27, 2021 | 6:06 am

In era of green mining, even a zero-carbon project won’t do

Aurubis AG, one of the world’s largest copper smelters, terminated a provisional agreement to buy raw materials from Nussir after opposition from local indigenous groups.

Bloomberg News | August 26, 2021 | 10:55 am

De Beers, National Geographic partner to protect Okavango Delta source waters

Partnership to support Botswana’s eco-tourism and water and food security.

MINING.com Editor | August 25, 2021 | 1:14 pm

How bringing structure to chaotic bubbles could make mining more sustainable

A new technique can structure bubbles by vibrating particles.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | August 25, 2021 | 11:52 am

A breakdown of the critical metals in a smartphone

Smartphones can carry ~80% of the stable elements on the periodic table.

Visual Capitalist Elements | August 25, 2021 | 10:21 am

How nature recycles organic material to create diamonds

New research shows that some diamonds are made up of former living organisms that have been recycled more than 400 kilometres below the surface.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | August 24, 2021 | 6:06 am

Brazil’s Munduruku tribe haunted by mercury’s deadly threat

Brazil's National Mining Agency estimates that wildcat gold miners extract some 30 tonnes of gold annually from the Tapajós river using toxic mercury.

Reuters | August 20, 2021 | 7:40 am

The View from England: Europe’s galactic mining goals

An asteroid is heading towards Earth, but it is good news for miners and Luxembourg stands ready to help.

Chris Hinde - The Northern Miner | August 18, 2021 | 2:34 pm

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