Mining

Greek mining enterprises are planning investments worth 300-400 million euros for this year, focusing on targets such as the digitization of production, the supply of new machinery equipment and security, the president of the Association of Mining Enterprises, Athanasios Kefalas, said this week.

The presence of methane gas and lack of adequate supervision were some of the reasons behind the unfortunate mine blast in which 42 workers lost their lives in the northern province of Bartın's Amasra district, says a report by the parliamentary commission established to investigate the incident.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed restrictions that would block plans for a copper and gold mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay region, the latest in a long-running dispute over efforts by developers to advance the mine in a region known for its salmon runs.

Mining Games

Protesters are seen during a rally outside the Rio Tinto office in Perth, Australia, 09 June 2020, after it detonated explosives in an area of the Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara, destroying two ancient deep-time rock shelters. Photo: PA-EFE/RICHARD WAINWRIGHT

More than 50 people were reported to have died on Nov. 25 after smoke filled a Siberian coal mine and a rescue effort ended in tragedy.

Senior managers at the mine in Russia's Kemerovo region had been detained for suspected safety violations, after the latest deadly accident to hit the country's vast mining industry.

The permits have yet to be issued and Serbian authorities have mooted the possibility of a referendum, but with so much at stake can "the voice of the people" really stop mining giant Rio Tinto's plan to dig Europe's biggest lithium mine in western Serbia?

Bitcoin mining produces electronic waste (e-waste) annually comparable to the small IT equipment waste of a place like the Netherlands, research shows.

Miners of the cryptocurrency each year produce 30,700 tonnes of e-waste, Alex de Vries and Christian Stoll estimate.

That averages 9.5oz (272g) per transaction, they say. By comparison, an iPhone 13 weighs 6oz.

Rio Tinto's projected lithium mining project in Serbia is a backward step in terms of the 'green transition' Europe needs to make, MEP Thomas Waitz tells BIRN in an interview.

Following weeks of uncertainty in which the Bucharest government considered withdrawing its application for UNESCO protection for Rosia Montana, a former gold mine dating from Roman times, the UN cultural heritage agency declared it a World Heritage site on Tuesday.

The move came as a relief to conservation groups who oppose the resumption of mining in the area.

Turkish mining sector exports reached $2.81 billion in the first six months of 2021, jumping 52 percent year-on-year, a sector group said on July 6.

Exports of metallic mining groups and natural stones rose to over $1 million during the same period, according to a press release from the Turkish Exporters Assembly's Mining Sector Council.