Despite the fact that Obama banned requests to mine for uranium in the Grand Canyon national park last year, Energy Fuels Resources is set to go ahead and reopen an old mine located just six miles from the popular South Rim entrance.
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The EPA’s latest assessment states that the development of the mine would destroy as much as 4,800 acres of wetlands, and nearly 100 miles of streams, including the natural habitat of the 37.5 million sockeye salmon, the world’s largest wild salmon population) that travel each year to the Bristol Bay watershed to spawn.
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Broader clashes between angry residents and police started on Tuesday morning in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, the area where the disputed gold mining triggers tension. Greek media report that the residents started the incidents when they attempted to hinder police units from searching in some homes of the area.
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In 2003 Hellenic Gold, followed by El Dorado, obtained the rights to mine the billions’ (ã7.8 billions’) worth of gold and copper snoozing beneath the mountain area. The deal saw the Greek state receive just �11 millions’ (ã9.5 millions’) worth of compensation for the mines, and, in addition to losing the government some money they could have probably done with, pissed off all the local residents.
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Niger has confirmed that French special forces are protecting one of the country’s biggest uranium mines. Islamist militants kidnapped five French workers from the mine in Arlit over three years ago, and only now they sent soldiers?
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It is the second company with such an ambitious plan. Another venture, the Planetary Resources Inc of Seattle, jointly backed by Google founders and explorer and filmmaker James Cameron, went public with proposals for similar mission last year.
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Heavy fighting has broken out between two tribes over a gold mine in Sudan’s Darfur region, killing several people and forcing authorities to close the mine, tribal leaders and state media said on Wednesday.
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This deposit is on the borders of the Congo and Cameroon. And since (be remarkable coincidence) most African conflicts arise in area’s where China invests heavily it will be interesting to watch this region.
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An Afghan came up with a simple ingenious idea. Check out the video.
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South African police have been accused of planting weapons near the bodies of workers killed during strikes at the Marikana platinum mine. Clashes between miners and police led to the deaths of 44 people in August
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