CARSON CITY -- Looking for a well-paying career? You might have to move to Elko or Carlin, but the average mining job in Nevada paid $78,579 in 2008. That's nearly $30,000 a year more than the average ...

Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching implications for coastal communities and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), it ...

Deep-Sea Mining Risks Disrupting the Marine Food Web, Study Warns Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — ...

The prospect of mining asteroids may sound like science fiction, but that's exactly what the ambitious new company Planetary Resources, Inc. plans to do — and a recent study by NASA, university and ...

NEW DELHI – A new study has found that deep-sea mining conducted more than 40 years ago in the Pacific Ocean continues to affect marine ecosystems, raising concerns over its lasting environmental ...

It is estimated that 23 million people living on the world’s floodplains are being exposed to potentially dangerous concentrations of toxic waste derived from past and present mining activity. This ...

To meet the world’s future needs, copper prices must at least double their current levels in order to incentivize companies to build more mines, a study published in the latest issue of the SEG ...

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