Nevada lithium mine breaks ground despite Indigenous opposition | Indigenous Rights News
Los Angeles, California, the US – Construction is under way at the Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada after
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After political violence, Peru reckons with economic fallout | Business and Economy News
Lima, Peru — The anti-government protests that killed dozens and dealt body blows to some of Peru’s most critical sectors
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Will China’s latest investment in Afghanistan actually work? | Business and Economy
The Taliban-run Afghanistan saw its first significant foreign investment last month when a Chinese firm signed a 25-year-long, multimillion-dollar contract
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Brazilian police seize assets from illegal Amazon gold mining | Mining News
The police operation comes as President Lula da Silva promises to crack down on illegal commercial activity in the Amazon.
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Brazil launches raids to oust illegal miners from Indigenous land | Indigenous Rights News
Yanomami Indigenous leaders in Brazil’s Amazon blame illegal gold miners for a health crisis and surge in violence. Brazil has
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‘No other place to go’: Migrants living in toxic dump in Chile | Environment News
Arica, Chile — Mireia Godoy, 74, no longer remembers what her neighbourhood used to be called when she arrived more
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Dangerous missing radioactive capsule found in Australia | Mining News
Emergency Services say they have ‘quite literally found the needle in the haystack’ after nearly a week-long search. Australian authorities
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Rio Tinto apologises as search for radioactive capsule continues | Mining News
A radiation alert is in force for parts of Western Australia after a tiny capsule containing Caesium-137 was lost. Mining
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Lawsuit: Mining giant ‘turned blind eye’ to Zambia lead poisoning | Mining News
Plaintiffs argue that decades of mining have turned the Kabwe community into ‘one of the most polluted places in the
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Sweden discovers largest rare earth deposit in Europe | Mining News
EU is looking for other sources than China for these crucial minerals, but it will take at least a decade
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