By Donna Schmidt The idea of a house can take on many forms depending on location, environment, family size and a number of other factors. Materials to build these homes are just as diverse. But what about using coal? Recently, a southern West Virginia newcomer company X- MAT received US$2.2 million in funding from the Department of Energy for a…
Read MoreCanadian-based Almadex Minerals announced in mid-May that its 100%-owned Davis/Paradise project in Nevada is fully permitted for drilling and a diamond drill program is expected to kick off next month. In a project update report, the company said the project, located near Gabbs and just five miles from the Paradise Peak gold mine, completed its geological fieldwork in April to…
Read MoreOn April 4, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced it would receive approximately $4.6 million annually, for the next 15 years, as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to address abandoned mine lands. The latest round of funding is in addition to annual grant funding of approximately $3.3 million that it receives already from coal…
Read MoreRevival Gold, which has been working to advance the Beartrack-Arnett gold project in Idaho, recently released drill results for the property that were completed by consultant firm Wood. The updated mineral resource report revealed an Indicated Mineral Resource of 65 million tonnes at 1.01 g/t gold containing 2.11 million ounces of gold, an increase of 56% over the 2020 Indicated…
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On May 12, Hudbay Minerals confirmed that it and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) received a split decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirming the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona’s decision in July 2019 on its Rosemont copper project in Arizona. The decision states the Court of Appeals agreed with the…
Read MoreIn early May, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Sunshine mine disaster in Idaho that trapped 173 workers underground and killed 91. It was a “day that changed the mining industry forever,” according to the agency: on May 2, 1972, a fire broke out underground at the operation in Kellogg just before noon…
Read MoreA federal appeals court has ruled unanimously that KenAmerican Resources violated the Mine Safety and Health Act more than a decade ago by giving underground miners advance notice that Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) inspectors were conducting an inspection. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision on May 11 is the latest action in a long-standing litigation involving an…
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By Ramona Monroe As an international studies major in college, I asked myself why some countries are rich while others are poor. I do not recall my international studies classes asking or addressing why some parts of the world developed more quickly than others. Rather, it was a question born from experience. I grew up in western Washington and spent…
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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reported that on Feb. 28, a contract miner died when he was crushed between the rib and a single boom face drill. The victim was alongside the drill using the onboard tram lever controls when the accident occurred because the remote control was inoperable. This is the eighth fatality reported in 2022, and…
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At the recently held Liebherr Customer Day 2022 at the company’s new Newport News, Va., campus, the OEM revealed that its fleet of mining dozers with operating weights ranging between 78,044 and 161,354 pounds can now be teleoperated via remote control using the Liebherr Remote Control (LiReCon) technology. The PR 776, which Liebherr said is the world’s biggest hydrostatic dozer,…
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