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Argonaut Gold Resumes Full Operations at All Mines, Mexico

June 2, 2020

Argonaut Gold has resumed mining, crushing, and stacking activities at the El Castillo mine and San Agustin mine, which together form the El Castillo Complex located in Durango, Mexico, and the La Colorada mine located in Sonora, Mexico. Given that

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KGHM Plans Expansion for Its Robinson Copper Mine, Nevada

June 1, 2020

An environmental analysis is being prepared for an expansion at the Robinson Copper Mine that would extend mining to 2028. The mine is on private and public lands about seven miles west of Ely. The amendment would authorize KGHM Robinson

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EPA Opts Not to Delay Northern Dynasty’s Pebble Mine, Alaska

June 1, 2020

A top official at the Environmental Protection Agency informed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Alaska late Thursday that the EPA would not formally object at this point to the proposed Pebble Mine, a massive gold and copper deposit

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Ximen Mining Kicks Off Work to Reopen Kenville Underground Gold Mine, B.C

June 1, 2020

Ximen Mining Corp updated Friday on the further progress being made at its Kenville gold mine project in Nelson, British Columbia. The firm wants to bring back to life the former underground mine, which reportedly produced 65,236 ounces of gold

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Contura Energy Completes Exit from Powder River Basin Coal Mining

June 1, 2020

Contura Energy Inc. completed its exit from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming after two of its previously owned entities were merged with subsidiaries of Eagle Specialty Materials LLC effective May 29. Contura said one of the surviving entities of

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West Virginia Receives $27.2 Million to Develop Abandoned Mine Land Sites

June 1, 2020

The federal government has awarded the state with around $27.2 million to develop abandoned mine land sites. Twelve projects will benefit from the funding, which comes from the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. The West Virginia Department

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Federal Permitting Process for Alaska’s Pebble Project Passes Another Key Milestone

May 29, 2020

Northern Dynasty Minerals reports the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the lead federal regulator for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) permitting process for the Pebble Project, has announced a preferred development alternative for the proposed copper-gold-molybdenum-silver mine in southwest

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DOE Awards $10 Million to Two Projects for R&D for Reliable Coal Components

May 29, 2020

Together with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL),the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has chosen two projects to receive approximately $10 million in funding to progress research and development of more reliable coal components. Provided

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Minerals Permitting Legislation Recognizes Mining’s Essential Role in Critical Supply Chains

May 29, 2020

The following statement was released today by National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Rich Nolan praising the introduction of the “American Critical Mineral Exploration and Innovation Act,” which includes modernization of the federal permitting systems to improve access to

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Environmentalists Lose Bid to Halt Energy Fuels’ Canyon Uranium Mine, Arizona

May 29, 2020

A federal judge has ruled against environmental groups and a tribe in their bid to keep a uranium mine south of the Grand Canyon from operating. The Canyon Mine near the national park’s South Rim entrance has been on standby

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