How to Strip-Mine Shangri-La
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The Chinese are ecstatic over newly discovered mineral deposits. But they are in Tibet, where the ecology is fragile and human rights even more so
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MERERANI, Tanzania  - The orange sun sets over the  Tanzanian mining town of Mererani as pick-up trucks take the  night shift to pits producing blue Tanzanite gemstones, and  tired workers trudge home in the opposite direction.
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Science & environment: DIY chain to stop selling environmentally damaging heaters once current stock is sold off
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Cash'n'Carrion Lots of torch for not much cash
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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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In the land where diamonds are a relative bargain, the Rockets&#39; attempt to mine an old-fashioned gem may have come up with a glitter.
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A research chemist at a Tennessee weapons plant creates a dust rag that mops up deadly beryllium particles 20 times smaller than the naked eye can see. By the Associated Press.
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Reportedly a fire in an iron mine in Northern China has killed eight miners and 79 miners are still unable to be reached. According to the news from New Chinese News Agency, five miners managed to escape from
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Cash'n'Carrion Essential kit for the marauding sysdamin
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Silver Bow Creek, contaminated for more than a century by tailings and other mine waste, appears to be responding to environmental cleanup.
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AURORA __ A Beaufort County strip-mining operation that is one of the regions largest employers is asking regulators to allow it to destroy 2,500 acres of wetlands.
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A Las Vegas company that recently opened a casino in Macau said Wednesday it has proposed a resort development on a nearby Chinese island, but without any casinos because they are illegal in the mainland.
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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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By Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 8--The Army Corps of Engineers this week suspended a wetlands permit for the Rock Creek and Big Hurrah gold mines under construction near Nome.
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JHARIA, India  - Rescue teams struggled to locate   and remove the charred bodies of 54 Indian miners killed after   the roof of a state-owned coal mine collapsed following an   explosion, authorities said on Friday.
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By Jim Myers, Tulsa World, Okla.  Jun. 8--WASHINGTON -- A new federal rule will encourage commercial uses of chat and further the removal of more of the mining waste from the Tar Creek Superfund site, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says.
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NAIROBI, Nov 30  - The French army will clear landmines that were buried deep underground by landslides around its military base in Djibouti, starting in 2006, officials said in Nairobi on Tuesday.