Copper Mining

Judge Sets Trial For Class-Action Suit Over Polluted Nevada Mine

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Energy, Video, Nevada Copper Mine Suit, Anaconda Copper Mine, Copper Mines, Environment, Copper Mining, Nevada, Anaconda Copper Mine Suit, Nevada Toxic Mine, Green News

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A trial is still more than a year away, but a federal judge on Monday cleared the way for neighbors of an abandoned, toxic mine in...

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China in Zambia: Trouble Down in the Mines

Matt Wells | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Copper Mining, Labor, Human Rights, China, Zambia, Human Rights Watch, World News
Matt Wells

"If someone dies, he can be replaced tomorrow, and if you report the problem, you'll lose your job." This, in the words of a Zambian copper miner, describes the downside of the growing investment of Chinese companies in Africa over the last decade.

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JPMorgan's Search For Untapped Afghan Gold

CNN Money | James Bandler | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Mineral Mining, Afghanistan, Gold Mining, David Petraeus, Copper Mining, J.P. Morgan, Taliban, Foreign Investment, Ian Hannam, China, Ipad, Business News

To Hannam, chairman of J.P. Morgan Capital Markets, Afghanistan represents a gigantic, untapped opportunity -- one of the last great natural-resource ...

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The 'Biggest Company You've Never Heard Of' Is About To Go Public

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copper Mining, Glencore, Goldman Sachs, Commodities, Congo, Glencore IPO, Mining, Katanga Mining, Business News

BAAR, SWITZERLAND (By Eric Onstad, Laura MacInnis and Quentin Webb) - On Christmas Eve 2008, in the depths of the global financial crisis, Katan...

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A Sacred Fire Is Burning at Eagle Rock

Cynthia Pryor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rio Tinto, Charlotte Loonsfoot, Avatar, Eagle Rock, Great Lakes, Native Americans, Upper Peninsula Michigan, Lake Superior, Michigan, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Anishinaabe, Sulfide Mining, Copper-Mining, Mineral Rights, Nickel Mining, Green News
Cynthia Pryor

Outside Avatar, indigenous communities are waging very real battles to protect sacred sites. And not just in exotic corners of the world, but right here in America, in the Great Lakes.

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Chinese Copper Mining In Peru To Displace Town, Mountain

BBC.co.uk | John Simpson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinese Mining, Peru, Open-Cut Mining, Open-Pit Mining, China Energy, Copper Mining, China Peru Mining, Opencast Mining, Stripmining, China, Chinese Electricity, Mining Peru, Green News

At 15,000 feet (4,600m), Mount Toromocho, 86 miles (138km) from Lima, is comparable to any mountain in Europe. It gets its name from its shape - The ...

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