BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Once upon a time, a mining town stood strong on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The town – Bodie, California – was discovered in 1859, and for the next 50 years it was home…
India ditches $3 billion diamond deal to save tigers
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The Indian government is being praised as they recently decided to ditch a diamond-mining project worth more than $3 billion USD. The land where the surface mining would take place is home to a large portion of…
When threatened by a billion-dollar mining company, this peasant farmer told them to go to hell.
By: JACK M. You don’t have to look too hard or wait too long to hear of yet another mega-sized mining company ripping up some pristine piece of the planet, polluting natural resources, defacing rain forests, compromising biodiversity, threatening…
Unethical Canadian mining practices shed a harsh light on Canada’s good-guy image
BY: AIDAN MACNAB Photo by Roger LeMoyne / Macleans Canada is back, or so we’re told. After a decade-long dark age of Harper lunacy we have allegedly re-established ourselves as the global nice guys. We love refugees. We’re sorry about…
John Baird promoted mining giant’s interests while in office, and now he’s working for them
BY: MITCHELL THOMPSON Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Baird accepting a job at Barrick Gold—the world’s largest gold mining company that lobbied him several times while he was in office—raises questions as to whether this is a part of…
10 photos compare the environmental cost of mining to the tiny amount of product it yields
BY: JOHN DILLON Photos: Dillon Marsh You might think twice before falling victim to the famous De Beers Ad Campaign and proposing to your lover with an opulent diamond ring after seeing the massive amounts of landmass they have removed…
Amnesty says a Canadian mining company made profit off the eviction of thousands from their homes
BY: MITCHELL THOMPSON The US State Department says that during this time, Myanmar “continued to be ruled by a highly authoritarian military regime widely condemned for its serious human rights abuses. The military Government, known as the State Law and…
Mining asteroids for resources has become a very real possibility
BY: ZOE MELNYK Images by: Bryan Versteeg and SpaceHabs.com With limited resources on Earth, private business and countries around the world are starting to consider the possibility of mining asteroids. It seems far-fetched to imagine that we’ll resort to space travel…