Climate-Smart Mining: inside the World Bank’s ambitious mining fund
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Moving a town to save a mine: the story of Kiruna
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- Climate-Smart Mining: inside the World Bank’s ambitious mining fund
- Fura and the future: could the Canadian miner restart Australia’s sapphire industry?
- A fractured world: new issue of Mine Magazine out now
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- Kick-starting Australia’s sapphire industry: read this and more in the new issue of MINE Australia
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Climate-Smart Mining: inside the World Bank’s ambitious mining fund
The World Bank has launched its Climate-Smart Mining Facility, a $50m fund to promote sustainable mining practices. JP Casey speaks to World Bank director Riccardo Puliti about the fund’s origins, and its aim of ensuring the sector’s environmental performance, despite changes in the industry.
Fura and the future: could the Canadian miner restart Australia’s sapphire industry?
Canadian miner Fura has purchased the Capricorn sapphire mine in Australia, as part of a plan to mine and export all of the big three gemstones: rubies, emeralds and sapphires. With the Australian sapphire mining sector having struggled in recent years, there is hope that Fura’s investment could not only generate profits for the company, but reinvigorate the country’s sapphire mining industry as a whole. JP Casey takes a look at whether this could be the jumpstart the industry needs.
A fractured world: new issue of Mine Magazine out now
In this issue: we look at the impact international relations have on mining, the deepsea mining debate, how behavioural science can improve safety, and more.
Heavy metal: the fight to cleanse Cornwall’s polluted rivers
Tin mining in Cornwall and West Devon has left a dual legacy. On the one hand its historic mining landscape was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006, but on the other there are toxic rivers due to poisonous metals from the mines infecting the main water streams. Jack Unwin examines the efforts by local and central government to cleanse the area.
Kick-starting Australia’s sapphire industry: read this and more in the new issue of MINE Australia
In this issue: we look at the Junior Minerals Exploration Incentive, the safety of tailings dams, implementing industrial manslaughter laws in Queensland and more.
Everledger launches blockchain platform to ensure transparency in diamond sourcing
Everledger, a digital technology enterprise has launched version 2.0 of its blockchain platform designed to provide transparent information of a diamond’s characteristics and ownership record accessible on desktop or mobile devices.
Moving a town to save a mine: the story of Kiruna
The Swedish town of Kiruna is sinking into the caverns excavated by more than half a century of iron ore mining in the region. In response, local officials and the state-owned miner responsible for the mining work are committing over a billion dollars to relocate much of the town three kilometres to the east, trying to transplant the spirit of Kiruna to a new, safer, location. JP Casey takes a look at how you can move a village, to save a mine.
Can mining survive the Australian climate change debate?
Australian’s have long made a living from what’s underground. The mining sector is a vital part of its economy, but it has its critics. Andrew Tunnicliffe speaks with Minerals Council of Australia’s CEO, Tania Constable, about the sector’s future potential, its action on climate change and the re-election of Scott Morrison and the Liberal-National coalition.
World Gold Council launches framework to address ESG issues
The World Gold Council (WGC) has launched a set of principles for gold miners designed to address key environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
July’s top news stories
A landslide that occurred at a jade mine in the Hpakant region of Myanmar’s Kachin state has claimed the lives of 19 people and two Canadian mines are set to pilot a research project led by the University of British Columbia (UBC) that combats greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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