Loren wants Sibuyan mining permits suspended.
Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday urged the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to suspend all mining permits and applications on Sibuyan Island, Romblon to save it from environmental destruction. Founder and chairperson of the environmental group Luntiang Pilipinas, Legarda said that mining activities endanger Sibuyan...

Mining firm disputes claims of Benguet folk; Philex says it has already paid claims of 53 affected families.
Byline: DEXTER A. SEE TUBA, Benguet - The management of the Philex Mining Corp. said that community issues were overtaken by personal interests in the dispute on the reported unpaid claims over a natural-subsidence area. Lawyer Ed Aratas, chief of Philex's legal division, said that...

Great mining camps of Canada 1. The history and geology of the Keno Hill Silver Camp, Yukon Territory.
SUMMARY The Keno Hill Camp was one of The Great Mining Camps of Canada; it was not only Canada's second largest primary silver producer and one of the richest Ag-Pb-Zn vein deposits ever mined in the world, it was also one of the mainstays of the Yukon...

Defenders of Appalachia: the campaign to eliminate mountaintop removal coal mining and the role of Public Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION II. MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL III. PUBLIC JUSTICE A. Background B. Public Justice Today C. Justice and the Environment IV. BIOGRAPHIES A. Jim Hecker B. Joe Lovett. V. LITIGATION HISTORY A. Bragg v. Robertson B. Kentuckians for the Commonwealth v. Rivenburgh C. Ohio Valley Environment Coalition v. Bulen D....

An unlikely alliance.
Byline: The Register-Guard The Bush administration's push to open public lands throughout the West to logging, drilling and mining has produced some unlikely coa- litions. To date, most have been transitory, informal - and often, uncomfortable - alliances formed to oppose the administration's public-lands initiatives,...

Nicky Oppenheimer: 'Why Africa will succeed'.
Nicky Oppenheimer (pictured) has been the chairman of the De Beers Group since January 1998. De Beers is the world's largest diamond mining and marketing company, and has an extensive presence in Africa. Oppenheimer is, therefore, uniquely positioned to give insights into the continent's considerable achievements, and its future...

Canadian tar sands could quench U.S. thirst.
Canadian tar sands deposits hold an estimated 1.7 trillion barrels of crude oil, second in the world only to Saudi Arabia, but the environmental impact of mining them far exceeds that of conventional oil, writes Dan Woynillowicz for the Woddwatch Institute, Washington, D.C. The energy-intensive process of...

Regional incidence of the costs of greenhouse policy/L'incidence regionale des couts d'une politique concernant les gaz a effet de serre.
Abstracts A regional CGE model of Canada is developed to estimate the effect on aggregate welfare and the welfare of individual provinces of achieving Canada's Kyoto target using alternative climate policies. We consider a domestic carbon tax, international permit trading, as well as the Liberal federal government's...

Mining and hydrological transformations in Upper Silesia from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
This paper analyses the influence of mining on hydrological conditions in Upper Silesia from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The perturbation of local hydrological conditions began in the fifteenth century as a result of wide-scale mining of iron, silver and lead ores. Further changes took place during the...

DIAMOND MIND.
DIAMOND MIND BY NEIL LANE, NEIL LANE JEWELRY Journeying from Hollywood to the source of its glitter, jeweler-to-the-stars Neil Lane discovers how diamonds benefit Africa and its people. Neil Lane is the jeweler most associated with the glitter and glamour of Hollywood. He...