Water resources drying up.
AS THE WORLD'S DEMAND FOR WATER has tripled over the last half-century and, as the need for hydroelectric power has grown even faster, dams and diversions of river water have drained many rivers dry. As water tables fail, the springs that feed rivers also go dry, reducing flows. Numerous...

Capitol Hill's longest-running outrage: Congress winks while the mining companies shaft the taxpayers.
Congress winks while the mining companies shaft the taxpayers Joining the Senate in 1975 was a traumatic experience for me. I had been governor of Arkansas for four years and I was accustomed to making policy, giving my approval to legislation that I thought had merit, vetoing legislation...

The Fengjiashan mine: Daye District, Ezhou Prefecture, Hubei Province, China.
The Fengjiashan mine, also known as the Daye mine, is famous among mineralogists and mineral collectors as the type locality for hubeite and the source of some of the world's best crystallized inesite. Opened as a copper mine in 1966, it became unprofitable and was converted to a wollastonite...

Lead isotope analyses from Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates: new data regarding the 'tin problem' in Western Asia.
The subject of this article is the evidence for the earliest use and trade of tin and bronze(1) in Western Asia. The article begins with an outline of the 'tin problem', followed by an overview of recent archaeometric research programs of importance to discussions of the Early Bronze Age...

Corporations get the gold, taxpayers get the shaft.
This is the ninth agonizing year of my effort to reform the Mining Law of 1872, signed by Ulysses S. Grant and intended to entice people to "go west" and settle. Because I will leave the Senate at the end of the year, the conclusion of my...

Crushed Rock, Big Ice and Soap Suds.
Explorations of Gravel Mining, the Antarctic Shelf and `Natural' Cleansers What are the environmental impacts of gravel extraction? --Kristina Hayward, Berkshire, UK Gravel extraction, often in stream beds, is big business in the United States and elsewhere, and there's a definite environmental cost....

Mining on "nature island": the Dominican government's resource extraction plans anger conservationists.
In the tiny Caribbean country of Dominica, conservationists are clashing with the government over how best to fit economic needs with ecological protection. The self proclaimed "nature island" suffers from widespread poverty, worsened by declining banana exports. At a recent international eco-tourism conference, Prime Minister Edison James confirmed...

Puerto Princesa mayor prohibits big-scale mining.
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY -- Shocked by the big number of mining applications covering most of the city's 254,000-hectare land area, Mayor Edward S. Hagedorn declared yesterday a total ban on large-scale mining. "This mad rush to mine every square inch of the city is insane, ridiculous and...

Agusan mining firm remits P237.5 M in taxes, dues to gov't.
Mining firm SR Metals, Inc. (SRMI) has remitted an estimated P237.5 million in taxes and dues to the national and local governments during the first seven months of 2007 which significantly boosted the government's revenue generation bid. This was disclosed by SRMI president Miguel Alberto Gutierrez who...

DENR pushes policy reforms in mining.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is pushing for the direct access of local government units (LGUs ) to excise taxes so as to protect LGUs, Indigenous People (IP) groups, and the entire mining sector. DENR Secretary Jose L....