Mines

Inside The Mines Of Potosi, Bolivia

Linda Xiao | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: South America, Bolivia Travel, Potosi, Spelunking, Mines, Bolivia, South America Travel, Slideexpand, Travel Blogs, Slidepollajax, Travel News
Linda Xiao

In order to survive, one must make certain sacrifices to appease Tío, the devil-like figure that the miners idolize.

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Xstrata: fusion de 90 milliards $

PC | The Associated Press | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Xstrata, Xstrata Glencore, Québec éConomie, Pc, Québec, Fusion Xstrata Et Glencore, Glencore, Mines, Xstrata Glencore Fusion, Industrie Minière, Canada, Home News

LONDRES - La compagnie minière Xstrata et le négociant de produits de base Glencore International ont convenu d'une fusion de 90 milliards $ qui cr...

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Federal Official: 'We've Got To Stay Focused On Mine Safety'

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Energy, Video, Mine Safety Complacency, Mountaintop Removal, Joe Main Mine Safety, Mines, Mine Safety, Sago Mine, Coal Mining, Joe Main, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — If there's one lasting cultural change Mine Safety and Health Administration Director Joe Main wants to make in both the fe...

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Watch: Gold Mines Unearth Worms From Hell

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Video, Gold Mines, Nematodes, Worms From Hell, Underground, Worms, Mines, Science, Gold, Natural World, Biosphere, Subterranean, Weird News News

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Chile Miners KILLED Weeks After Mine Rescue

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Mining Accidents, Mines, Chile Miners, Chile Mine, Chile Miners Killed, Chile Mine Accident, World News

Just two weeks after a dramatic rescue of 33 miners in Chile, two miners have been killed in the same region, reports the AP. Said Mariano Garrido of ...

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Friday Talking Points [122] -- Bikini Bottom Update

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, White House, Tea Party, Job Loss, Monokini, Ron Paul, Regulatory, Connecticut, Reform, Sarah Palin, Primaries, Wall Street Reform, Bikini, Midotw, Brown, Chickens for Checkups, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Republican Party, Reid, The Pill, Making Love to Wall Street, Marco Rubio, Bp, Kaufman, Democrat, Congress, Big Government, Miranda, Democrats, Barack Obama, Election, Elections, Times Square, Terror, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Million Jobs Per Month, Predator, Job, Mines, Financial, Harry Reid, Vacation, Cuba, Laser, Senate, Spongebob Squarepants, Bikini Chart, Bikini Graph, President Obama, Sherrod Brown, Economy, Jobs, Immigration, Bernie Sanders, Democratic, Obama, Arizona, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Lieberman, Chicken, Oil Spill, Ned Lamont, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Rubio, Midterms, Graph, Arlen Specter, Jonas Brothers, Chart, Florida, Sue Lowden, Bikini Bottom, Primary, Rentboy, Ted Kaufman, Audit the Fed, Blanche Lincoln, Wedgie, Wall Street, Midterm, Chris Weigant, Palin, Deregulation, Brown Kaufman, Joe Lieberman, Small Government, Bikini Bottom Graph, Chuck Schumer, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Since it's the Friday after month's-end, the new monthly unemployment numbers were released today. Which adds another bar to the "bikini bottom" char...

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Unsafe Mines Will Be Closed, Top Regulator Tells Senate Committee

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Massey Energy, Senate, Jeffrey Harris, Mines, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Joe Main, Upper Big Branch Mine, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government will start going directly to federal court to shut down mines that make a habit of ignoring safety, the nation's top...

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The F Word: Coal Company Shopping Spree

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Miners, Massey Energy, Standard and Poor?S, Massey, Underground Mining, Jeff Biggers, Upper Big Branch, Grit Tv, Coal, Explosion, Surface Mining, The F Word, Cumberland Resources, Wall Street Journal Paywall, Laura Flanders, Mining, Grittv, Mines, Coal Mining, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Until we see some serious structural changes in the coal industry, it is going to continue doing what it has been doing: trading death for profit.

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The West Virginia Mining Disaster and the Financial Crisis Have the Same Root Cause

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Massey Energy, West Virginia Mine Explosion, Upper Big Branch Coal Mine, West Virginia Coal Mine Explosion, West Virginia Coal Mine, Mining, Massey Energy Company, Mines, Regulation, Coal Mining, Financial Regulation, Upper Big Branch Mine, Massey Explosion, Business News
Arianna Huffington

Both calamities occurred because elected officials who should have been creating a regulatory system instead created a system that protects the corporations it was meant to watch over.

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Rand Paul: Simply Bizarre On Mine Deaths

Kimberly Freeman Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rand Paul, 2010 Elections, Mining, Mines, Kentucky, Republican Party, Unions, Labor Unions, Coal Mining, Republicans, Elections 2010, Politics News
Kimberly Freeman Brown

For Rand Paul to be apparently ignorant of a Kentucky mine operator's violations while calling miners' preventable deaths "accidental" is shameful.

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UN Ratifies Ban On Cluster Bombs: US Still Has Not Signed

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, India, US Military, Pakistan, Detonate, Cluster Bombs, Robert Gates, Amputations, Ban Ki-Moon, Mines, The Convention on Cluster Munitions, US, Un, Israel, China, World News

UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Tuesday that the international convention banning cluster bombs has received the 30 rat...

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Marines Push New Vehicles 'The Breachers' Against Taliban Lines

AP | ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Assault Breacher, Mines, Marines, Afghanistan, Nato, The Breacher, Taliban, Roadside Bombs, Afghan Taliban, Breacher, World News

SISTANI, Afghanistan — In comes "The Joker." That's the nickname given by the crew to one of the 72-ton, 40-foot (12-meter)-long Assault Breach...

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China: Mentally Ill People Murdered, Used In Extortion Of Mine Owners

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Mentally Ill, Mining, Mines, Blackmail, Mining Extortion, China, World News

BEIJING — Police have arrested nine people in southwest China suspected of trafficking mentally ill people to be murdered in mines across the co...

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Obama Administration Needs to Take a Stand on Cluster Bombs

Donald Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Donald Steinberg

Cluster munitions are particularly evil weapons. On falling to the ground, these bombs and shells separate into dozens of small bomblets, exploding on the enemy and civilians.

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Poor Engineering Primed Utah Mine For Massive Collapse, Feds Say

Salt Lake Tribune | Robert Gehrke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mine Collapse, Utah Miners, Mines, Mine Safety, Utah Mine Collapse, Crandall Canyon Mine, Home News

Federal investigators determined that major engineering deficiencies left the Crandall Canyon coal mine primed for a massive pillar collapse, and tha...

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White House Opposes Mine Safety Bill

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mines, West Virgina Mine Disaster, Utah Mine Disaster, 2006 Miner Act, Mine Safety, Mine Safety Bill, Home News

The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a mine safety bill, saying the new regulations proposed by Democrats would interfere with legislation Pr...

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