The said slowdown is caused by the decrease in demand for resources from other countries which also affected the mining companies and the demand for housing. However, it also mentions that the industry will have its recovery given the different mining projects at hand....
About 120 miles North of Las Vegas is the ghost town of Rhyolite, a town that sprung up in 1904 as a result of the Gold Rush. Rhyolite is one of the larger Ghost Towns, which at one time had over 10,000 people living in the city. By 1907, the town was one of the few mining ...
On July 9 until the 14thday of this month, another residents coming from the towns of San Jorge and San Jose de Buan, Samar reported that the Bauxite Resources, Inc. (BRI) has “started to implement mining exploration and collection of limestone, soil samples in Mineral Production Sharing Ag...
In the 50-year mining moratorium, “it is clear there that we do not allow the large-scale mining in most Samar towns, because the 25 major river systems that provide clean water to 1.5 million island residents can be affected,” Salurio said. It was learned that government officials here...
In some mining sites in Sardinia facilities and machinery have been salvaged and restored; unfortunately, in most cases the ruins of the miners’ houses, the rusty railway tracks, and the gutted buildings where the minerals were processed look like ghost towns. Beneath these sites there is an ...
The last of the mining towns was built in the late 1970s at Roxby Downs in South Australia. Since that time, fly in fly out (FIFO) operations have become the norm in all remote mine sites throughout the country. Although there were safety and environmental concerns until the 1970s, the...
Other social issues linked to mining are the establishment of local towns, attracting migrants and rapidly increasing population densities. Edwards et al. [3] reported a fourfold increase in population (from 30,000 residents in 1999 to 120,000 residents in 2002) following the establishment of ...
Palite, youth leader Mamilmar Dubria, and Brooke’s Point councilor Victor Colili said that even indigenous peoples from other barangays and the neighboring towns of Bataraza and Sofronio Española participated in the decision-making gathering. ...
Ecological restoration of rare earth element (REE) mining areas has become a key component in the sustainable development of the ion-adsorption-type REE in