Blowing the Top Off Mountaintop Mining
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A mining practice that takes the tops off mountains has destroyed not only the scenery, activists say, but also the water supply for people living in Appalachia. The Department of the Interior considers a new rule that would pave the way for more mountaintop mining.
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A pair of accidents that killed more than 300 miners has underscored the human price China pays for its booming economy and ravenous appetite for coal, an industry that's seen more than 4,500 workers killed on the job this year.
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HARMONY is set to become the world&#39;s biggest gold producing mining company in just four months. This week Harmony moved closer to successfully concluding its hostile bid for rival Gold Fields.
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From Africa to Russia, from Peru to China, mining companies face a problem: the workers who haul up the earth's riches are coming down with AIDS, and it is hampering operations at a time of booming demand for minerals.
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The world's highest peak should put on a UN danger list to force action on global warming, campaigners say.
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Some kibbutzes are on the verge of collapse as they cope with debt and attrition.
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Few PSAs are as harrowing as the new work by the Brooklyn Brothers for the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the organization devoted to ridding the world of landmines. One new spot, which you can see at www.stoplandmines.org, shows a bucolic afternoon gone haywire as a girl playing soccer steps on a mine, triggering a huge explosion and widespread panic. "If there were landmines here, would you stand for them anywhere?" asks onscreen copy.
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Also: UN warning on e-waste 'mountain.' Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Leaving jobs at global giants, small miners are striking out for Mexicoâs Sierra Madre mountains.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it.
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Mining group BHP Billiton   is set for a make-over if it manages to gobble up Rio Tinto , jettisoning a range of mines to focus on core operations.
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Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's biggest gold producer, has been trailed by allegations of pollution.
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By Daniel Kelley, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Jun. 15--MARISSA -- A Peabody Energy proposal to reopen a surface mine and use adjacent land as a burnt coal landfill outside Marissa has drawn concern from nearby residents and praise from the business community.
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When reaching the top means using fingernails, ropes, harnesses, a helmet and climbing shoes.
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A strike at the world's largest privately-owned copper mine, La Escondida in Chile,  ends.
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A Canadian company wants to begin extracting gold and silver from a mountain in Cerro de San Pedro.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 10--Mining activities generally make a mess of the landscape. It doesn't matter whether the target of the mining is copper, limestone or calcium carbonate. The end result is like a wound that won't heal and continues to affect everything around it.