mining

Panama's president said Tuesday that Canadian miner First Quantum's lucrative copper mine, Cobre Panama, would be shut down, hours after the country's Supreme Court declared its contract unconstitutional.President Laurentino Cortizo said in…

It's the stuff of science fiction: Blasting off to the moon or an asteroid, drilling it, mining its resources and bringing some or all of it back to Earth.But that fiction is getting closer to becoming a reality. "The idea of extracting…

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Rescue effort would continue until Tuesday in the hope of retrieving the miners' bodies, which are yet to be found. (Image: Reuters/File)The workers were digging inside a hole with a depth of 60 metres (200 feet) in Pancurendang village in…

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PARIS: A vast area at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean earmarked for controversial deep sea mineral mining is home to thousands of species unknown to science and more complex than previously understood, according to several new studies.…

The start of industrial-scale seabed mining to extract car battery metals from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean has been delayed after the international agency charged with overseeing the work concluded late last week that it needed more…

Surging demand for metals used in electric vehicle batteries has kicked off an international race to mine the deep seas. And there are no rules.On Sunday, the International Seabed Authority missed an important deadline to establish a…

In 2020, Japan performed the first successful test extracting cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt -- a mineral used in electric vehicle batteries. Not only do directly mined areas become less habitable for ocean…

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