Gold Mining

Cleaning Mercury Out of Indonesian Gold

Ben Barber | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Indonesia Mercury Risks, Indonesia Gold Mining Mercury, Gold Mining, Gold Mining Mercury, Blacksmith Institute, Indonesia Gold Mining, Mercury Toxicity, Mercury Toxicity Indonesia, Green News
Ben Barber

The rivers of Indonesia's Kalimantan provinces seem pristine and free of the toxic stuff floating around in the Hudson and the Potomac rivers, but thousands of gold miners are pouring toxic mercury into the air.

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Cody Survives Accident On Deck Of 'Bering Sea Gold'

Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Reality TV, Bering Sea Gold, Accident, Gold Mining, Discovery, Alaska, Tv Replay, TV News

It's risky work on "Bering Sea Gold" (Fri., 10 p.m. EST on Discovery), with perhaps as much danger coming from the ships the crews are working on as i...

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'Bering Sea Gold': Mutiny On The Wild Ranger

Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Reality TV, Video, Bering Sea Gold, Gold Mining, Discovery, Tv Replay, TV News

Unless the entire crew backs the play, it's usually not a good idea to start calling out the captain of any vessel. Luckily for Steve, they were still...

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Impressive Dollar Amount Achieved On 'Gold Rush Alaska'

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Reality TV, Video, Gold Rush, Gold Mining, Jack Hoffman, Discovery, Gold Rush Alaska, Tv Replay, TV News

With work still ongoing, the boys of "Gold Rush" (Fri., 8 p.m. EST on Discovery) are starting to see both their fortunes and their moods improve. Aft...

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Owner Of 'Illegal' California Gold Mine Surrenders To Face Charges

AP | DON THOMPSON | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Video, California, Illegal Mining Operations, Big Cut Mine California, Gold Mining, Gold Mine Owner Arrested, California Gold Mine Bust, Joseph Hardesty Arrested, California Gold Mine, Joseph Hardesty California, Ap, Business News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man who state and local officials say is running a massive illegal gold-mining operation in California's Sierra Nevada s...

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Did 'Gold Rush Alaska' Crew Mine Enough To Turn Profitable?

Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Reality TV, Canada Tv, Video, Gold Mining, Discovery Channel, Gold Rush, Alaska, Tv Replay, Prospecting, TV News

With running costs of $1,000 per day, Fred Hurt and his crew at Porcupine Creek will only start turning a profit once they extract at least 50 ounces ...

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Proposed Gold Mine Riles Local People In Peru

GlobalPost | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Ollanta Humala, Conga Protests, Peru, Gold Mining, Cajamarca Emergency, Conga-Gold-Mine, Peru Protests, Cajamarca, Peru Gold Rush, World News

President Ollanta Humala's tightrope act was never going to be easy: keeping Peru's economy booming while cracking down on the mining industry'...

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Mali: Artisanal Mines Produce Gold With Child Labor

Human Rights Watch | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Children's Rights, Africa, Gold, Child Labor, Children's Health, Mali, Gold Mining, World News
Human Rights Watch

Hazardous Work, Mercury Poisoning, and Disease (Bamako)– At least 20,000 children work in Malian artisanal gold mines under extremely harsh and...

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Peru Declares Emergency Over Protests

AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Ollanta Humala, Video, Peru, Peru Highlands Gold Mine, Gold Mining, Newmont Mining Corp., South-America, Peru Mining Peru Mining Protests, World News

LIMA, Peru — Opponents of Peru's biggest mining investment said Monday they felt betrayed by the president's decision to impose a state of emerg...

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Peru Official Resigns Amid Mining Protests

AP | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Peru Environment Ministry, Video, Peru, Jose De Echave, Gold Mining, Conga Gold Mine, Newmont Mining Corp., Environment, Peru Mining Protests, Peru Water Supply, Jose De Echave Resigns, Green News

LIMA, Peru -- A key official in Peru's Environment Ministry has resigned as protests persist against a $4.8 billion gold mining project by peasants wh...

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Why Interest In Alaskan Gold Mining Has Surged

AP | By BECKY BOHRER | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Gold Prices, Department of Natural Resources, Video, Gold Mining, Discovery Channel, Gold Rush, Snow Shoeing, Anchorage, The Pebble Prospect, Alaska, Business News

JUNEAU, Alaska -- Interest in gold mining in Alaska has surged, buoyed by high gold prices and the lure of a landscape that remains relatively unexplo...

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Managers Blamed For 2010 Nevada Gold Mine Deaths

AP | By SCOTT SONNER | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Video, Gold Mining Deaths, Meikle Mine Deaths, Gold Mining, Nevada Gold Mines, Meikle Mine, Barrick Goldstrike Mine Death, 2010 Gold Mine Deaths, Nevada Mining Accident, Green News

RENO, Nev. -- Federal safety investigators say two Nevadans were killed in a mining accident partly because someone wedged a broom handle against a re...

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FOOL'S GOLD: Illegal Mining Threatens California's Most Famous National Park

| Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Yosemite National Park Gold Mining, Yosemite Mining, Sutter Gold Mining Inc., California Illegal Gold Mining, California Gold Mining, Illegal Mining, Gold Mining, Yosemite Gold Mining, California Illegal Mining, Illegal Gold Mining, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Illegal Mining, California Mining, San Francisco News

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Susanne Rust As state officials spar with illegal gold miners in El Dorado County, env...

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Q&A With Lisa Kristine, Photographer of Slaves

Joshua Kors | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Oakland, Photojournalist, Slavery, Peace Summit in Vancouver, Ghana, Nepal, Gold Mining, Brick Kilns, Brong Ahafo, New York Times, San Francisco, India, Lisa Kristine, Photographer, Photos, Photography, War Photographer, Free the Slaves, James Nachtwey, World News
Joshua Kors

2011-08-26-slaves.pngThe most pernicious lie still taught in elementary school is that slavery ended in 1865 with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. Today, 146 years later, slavery is rampant, both in the U.S. and abroad.

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WATCH: Maddow Gives Shout-Out To Denver Mining Company

Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Video, Investing in Gold, Rachel Maddow, Gold Mining, Newmont Mining Corp, Rachel Maddow Economic Analysis, Price of Gold, Rachel Maddow Video, Newport Mining Stock, S&P Winners, Denver News

Rachel Maddow gave a huge shout out to--of all things--a Denver mining company on her show last night. Not for environmentally friendly practices, or...

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Faith And Economy

Doug Demeo | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Debt Crisis, Economics, Mountaintop Removal, The Age of Greed, Money, Gold Mining, Marcelo Rivera, Jeff Madrick, Faith and Religion, Economy, Green Faith, Religion News
Doug Demeo

Ultimately, Sunday faith and Monday faith serve the same God in relative peace and harmony, or, we endure the messy societal results of our own discord.

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El Salvador Residents Fight To Ban Gold Mining

The Nation | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: El Salvador Mining, El Salvador Lempa River, Gold Mining, Lempa River, El Salvador Gold Mining, Green News

Thirty years ago, several thousand civilians in the northern Salvadoran community of Santa Marta quickly gathered a few belongings and fled the US-fun...

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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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Weekly Mulch: Monsanto's Mutant Alfalfa and the Feral Pig Invasion

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roundup Ready Alfafa, Vilsack, Phmsa, Gold Mining, The Michigan Melzer, Invasive Species, Feral Pigs, Greystar, change.org, Nuclear, Monsanto, Ruce Power, Campus Progress, Gainesville, Truthout, Colombia, Mother Jones, Drummond, Feed the Future, Dioxins, Inter Press Service, New Visions for Agriculture, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Agribusiness giant Monsanto is strengthening its hold over the food system both in this country and abroad,...

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SEC Charges 6 Men In $300M Ponzi scheme with Colorado ties

Denver Business Journal | Renee McGaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Colorado, Sec, U.S. District Court, Gold Mining, Denver News

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CAFTA Attack on Green Policy: Did Obama Need More Reasons to Renegotiate Bush's NAFTA-Style Trade Deals?

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: El Salvador, Free Trade Agreements, Nafta, Gold Mining, South Korea, Mining, Cafta, Environment, Free Trade, Barack Obama, Korea, World News
Lori Wallach

Wait, weren't we told that those outrageous NAFTA-style foreign investor special privileges had been fixed in CAFTA? So, what's up with the Obama folks now?

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Australia Mining Pit, Visible From Space, Threatens To Swallow Town

GlobalPost | Kathy Marks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barrick Gold, Boom Town, Kalgoorie, Western Australia, Australian Desert, Golden Mile, Australia, Gold Mining, Gold Rush, Mining, Perth, Super Pit, World News

More than a century on, the "Golden Mile" is still yielding riches, mainly from the so-called Super Pit, an enormous open-cut mine created from scores...

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An Environmental Disaster We CAN Avoid: Canadian Mining in Guatemala

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mining Disaster, Paula Todd, Stephen Harper, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Gold Mining, Ctv, Canada, Environmental Disaster, Water Contamination, Poison, Human Rights, Water Pollution, Goldcorp, Mining, Water, Environment, Guatemala, Green News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

The disaster of BP should be a lesson to the world: stop environmental abuses before they escalate to unmanageable levels. In other industries, the same inevitable environmental destruction must be avoided.

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The World's Most Hated Blogger

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The World's Most Hated Blogger, Aol-walletpop.com, Andrea-Chalupa, Real Estate Bubble Burst, Tim Ferriss, WalletPop.Com, Gold Mining, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Suze Orman, iamfacingforeclosure.com, Robert Kurosaki, Walletpop, Andrea Chalupa, Motley Fool Hoax Casey Serin, Casey Serin, TrueCasey.Com, Fbi, The 4-Hour Workweek, Media News
Andrea Chalupa

Two years ago, it's fair to say, Casey Serin hit bottom. A bottom lower than most of us could go -- a bottom that would make most of us nauseous and curl into fetal position, whimpering.

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Supreme Court OKs Dumping Mining Waste In Lakes

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Lower Slate Lake, Gold Mining Company, Dump, Gold Mining, Supreme Court Ruling, Mining, Coeur Alaska Inc, Clean Water Act, Lakes, Green News

WASHINGTON — A mining company was given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court on Monday to dump waste from an Alaskan gold mine into a nearby 23-acr...

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