Mining Impact News Today

An open-pit mine wall in central Venezuela collapsed on Tuesday, trapping dozens of workers under mud. A frantic rescue effort is underway to save those affected by the incident.

A confidential report that flags harmful levels of toxic mining effluent in Lesotho’s key rivers feeding the Lesotho Highlands Water Project has raised uncomfortable questions in the government and set the cat among the pigeons in cabinet, as ministries shift the blame and justify not doing the...

Generating environmental baseline knowledge is a prerequisite for evaluating and predicting the effects of future deep seabed mining on the seafloor and in the water column. Without baselines, we lack the information against which to assess impacts and therefore cannot decide whether or not they pose an acceptable risk to the marine environment. At present, the International Seabed Authority (ISA), which is the international regulator for seabed mining, requires contractors engaged in mineral ex...

Mining clumps of metal at the bottom of the ocean could address critical shortages, but the damage to the seabed may deter attempts to make this process mainstream.

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