Arctic mine signs giant copper contract with a green touch in Norway
Nussir aims at becoming the world’s first fully electrified underground mine, with zero emission of CO2. Preparing for production could
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Fortune Minerals switches focus to gold, gets $144K from Canada’s Northwest government
A Northwest Territories mining company is turning its project focus to gold. Fortune Minerals Ltd. announced it received $144,000 from the territory’s Mining
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Russian Indigenous groups call on Elon Musk to boycott company behind Arctic environmental disasters
The company that recently made international headlines for causing environmental disasters on the Taimyr Peninsula by spilling 20,000 tons of
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Climate change hits back at Svalbard, coal mine flooded by melting glacier in Norway
Large water penetration in Gruve 7 (Mine 7) was discovered on Sunday July 26 during a routine inspection, the Store Norske
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Deutsche Bank won’t finance any new Arctic oil and gas projects
The Frankfurt-based bank adopted its new Fossil Fuels Policy on Monday with strict limitations on future involvement in coal, oil and gas.
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Agnico Eagle pipeline plans in Arctic Canada halted after Indigenous community outcry
A Nunavut regulator has given mining company Agnico Eagle a “significant rebuke” over a controversial pipeline proposal for the Meliadine
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Miners hunting for metals to battery cars threaten Finland’s Sámi reindeer herders’ homeland
Nobody had asked them about exploring for minerals inside their siida, a reindeer foraging area, in northern Finland. The Sámi
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Russian watchdog seeks nearly $3B in damages over Arctic fuel spill in Siberia
Russia’s environmental watchdog has asked a power subsidiary of Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel to pay almost 148 billion rubles, or $2.8
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Canadian Indigenous community benefit agreement worth $1B over life of Mary River Mine in Nunavut
Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation and the Qikiqtani Inuit Association have a new agreement for Inuit oversight of the Mary River Mine.
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Rio Tinto not interested in any part of Dominion Diamond Mines in Northern Canada
The company thought to be the most logical to partner with or purchase Dominion Diamond Mines is not interested in
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Russian investor breathes new life in major Arctic coal project
Roman Trotsenko on the 18th June formalized the acquisition of 75 percent of shares in the Arctic Mining Company and
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Almost 2,000 workers have contracted COVID-19 at this Russian Arctic construction site
A big cruise vessel has anchored up along the banks of the Kola Bay as the number of infected workers
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‘We weren’t prepared’: Canada’s Northwest Territories economy in a battle for survival amid COVID-19
This story is part of The COVID Economy, a CBC News series looking at how the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic is
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Lack of tourism, impact on mining unclear: how is northwestern Canada coping with COVID-19?
This story is part of The COVID Economy, a CBC News series looking at how the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic is
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Swedish company LKAB targets emission-free iron ore mining around 2030
Europe’s largest iron ore producer aims at replacing all diesel-powered mining machines with electric ones at the underground mines in
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