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MSHA Launches $1 Million Funding Opp for Brookwood-Sago Grants
June 27, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor has launched a funding availability of up to $1 million in grants through its Brookwood-Sago grant program to support education and training to help the mining community identify, avoid, and prevent unsafe and unhealthy working
IEA Publishes Its World Energy Investment Report, Coal Investments Set to Rise 10%
June 27, 2022
Global energy investment is on course to jump by more than 8 percent in 2022 and hit $2.4 trillion, with a notable uptick for coal supply chains, but far more money will be required if climate-related goals are to be
Mike Cope: Recent Blackouts Offer Warning for Ohio Power Grid
June 27, 2022
Ohio just had a brush with rolling blackouts when a quarter of million people lost power due to storm damage. Losing so much electricity at one time is always troubling. However, it’s also an unfortunate preview of a similar disaster
Dräger and Focus FS Enter Strategic Partnership with Ontario Mine Rescue
June 27, 2022
Dräger Canada and Focus FS entered into a strategic, multi-year partnership with Ontario Mine Rescue (OMR) in mine rescue safety innovation. Together they will deploy the Focus FS Emergency Response software at over 30 operating mining sites across the province,
Caterpillar to Relocate Global Headquarters to Dallas-Fort Worth Area, Texas
June 27, 2022
Caterpillar Inc. announced plans Tuesday to move its global headquarters from Deerfield, Illinois, to the company’s existing office in Irving, Texas. “We believe it’s in the best strategic interest of the company to make this move, which supports Caterpillar’s strategy
Gold Miner in Canada Finds Mummified 35,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth
June 27, 2022
It was a young miner, digging through the northern Canadian permafrost in the seemingly aptly named Eureka Creek, who sounded the alarm when his front-end loader struck something unexpected in the Klondike gold fields. What he had stumbled upon would
Federal Environmental Report Finds BWCA Risk, Could Doom Proposed Twin Metals Mine
June 24, 2022
The U.S. Forest Service issued a draft environmental assessment Thursday to lay the foundation for a proposed 20-year moratorium on copper-nickel mining upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Formally, the proposal would “withdraw” from new mineral leasing for
The New Joe Biden – Friend of American Industry?
June 24, 2022
In recent months, President Biden has undertaken several measures he claims will encourage domestic drilling, mining, and manufacturing. It’s a big change from 2021 when he offered next to nothing for these sectors. But his new agenda won’t make any
Altiplano Receives Final Processing Permit and Begins Operations at El Penon, Chile
June 24, 2022
Altiplano Metals has received the final processing approval from the Chilean Mining authority SERNAGEOMIN (Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería). This final permit allows operations to begin at the company’s processing facility constructed at El Peñón, approximately 15 kms from
Corps of Engineers Pulls Trump-Era Mine Permits in Georgia and Arizona
June 24, 2022
Two proposed large mining operations in Georgia and Arizona have lost U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge-and-fill permits granted during the Trump administration — the Biden administration has reversed those approvals and restored rules on covering federally protected wetlands. The
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