A panel of experts testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Chinese companies mining for “green” energy minerals throughout Africa – particularly in resource-rich countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are creating a “catastrophic and unacceptable” situation for locals.
A Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia suffered an accident in mid-February that dumped about fifty million liters of acid waste into the local water table, creating both an environmental disaster and a diplomatic rupture between Zambia and China.
Zelensky will sign a rare earths deal with Trump on Friday, formalising the future economic relationship between the two countries.
A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday sentenced three Chinese nationals to seven years in jail for participating in illegal gold mining operations.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday filed criminal complaints against subsidiaries of electronics giant Apple in France and Belgium, accusing them of using “blood minerals” sourced to mines controlled by armed gangs in the eastern DRC.
A professor specialising in “inhuman geography” at a British university has declared the subject of geology as racist, claiming it has been unduly influenced by colonisation.
The government of South Africa said on Thursday it will not assist a group of illegal miners who became trapped in a mine shaft with minimal supplies after police sealed off the entrance.
Zhao Xing, China’s ambassador to Afghanistan, said on Thursday that Beijing will soon offer “zero-tariff” trade to the Taliban regime.
U.S. Under-Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose Fernandez on Monday accused China of over-producing lithium in a predatory scheme to push down market prices and drive competing suppliers out of business.
The devastation in a small North Carolina down from Hurricane Helene may cause unexpected issues to the semiconductor production industry, as nearly all of the world’s supply of a necessary mineral comes from that area.
The Chinese government issued record-high mining quotas for rare earth minerals this week, reaching a new high of 270,000 tons that exceeds 2023’s total by 5.88 percent.
Nicaragua’s communist regime awarded its first open-pit mining lease to a Chinese company, state media confirmed on Tuesday.
Nicaragua’s communist regime has granted control of the nation’s gold mines to China in dubious and expedited procedures, the Argentine news outlet Infobae reported over the weekend.
Venezuela’s socialist regime signed a deal with Turkey that will allow the Middle Eastern nation to mine gold in the Orinoco Mining Arc.
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers ordered a Chinese investment fund to sell off shares of a strategic rare-earths mining company.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that the Biden administration had to loosen restrictions on eligibility for tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for electric vehicles containing components from China, Russia, North Korea,
At least 13 miners have been trapped in a collapsed gold mine in far eastern Russia, regional officials said Tuesday.
During an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, White House National Climate Adviser and Assistant to President Joe Biden Ali Zaidi stated that under the Biden administration, we can produce “many more of the products that will be needed to
Rural communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing an “environmental catastrophe” as mining for cobalt and other minerals necessary for manufacturing batteries poisons their land and water with toxic chemicals, experts told Congress on Tuesday.
A mining convoy in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was attacked by unknown assailants, killing four, including two Chinese nationals.
The Taliban jihadist terror organization held a press conference on Thursday to sign contracts the terrorists claimed were worth more than $6.5 billion, giving Chinese, British, Iranian, and Turkish companies access to Afghanistan’s vast mineral wealth.
On Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland responded to concerns that a new national monument around the Grand Canyon designated by President Joe Biden earlier that day will block uranium mining and increase American dependence on China and Russia
Voice of America News (VOA) reported on Tuesday that while the international community is nervously monitoring the brutal war between factions of the Sudanese junta and scrambling to deal with the ensuing humanitarian disaster, Communist China is moving full speed ahead with plans to “advance its own interests” in Sudan’s oil and mineral resources.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday filed a gloomy report on Chile’s plans to nationalize its lithium industry, which would freeze Beijing out of exploiting the vital “green energy” mineral. The editors vacillated between warning Chile that it courts disaster, and huffing that China doesn’t really need Chile’s lithium output.
Chilean far-left President Gabriel Boric announced plans to nationalize the country’s lithium industry in a national broadcast on Thursday evening.
A crew of as-yet unidentified gunmen attacked a Chinese-operated gold mine in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Sunday, killing nine Chinese nationals and injuring two more.
Chinese state media reported on Thursday that at least five people were killed and 48 are missing after an open-pit coal mine in northern Inner Mongolia collapsed in a landslide.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) reacted to the Biden administration blocking a mineral mining project in Minnesota by stating that the move “is part of the deranged climate policy pushed by the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) reacted to reporting from Axios that the Biden administration is looking to promote mining projects in other countries by stating that by doing that while
Britain’s National Grid has announced it is firing up two coal-fired reserve power plants as a winter snap and lack of wind leave the country facing blackouts amid a general energy crisis.
A report published Monday by the tech website Rest of World (RoW) exposed the horrifying environmental cost of manufacturing all those “clean” electric vehicles.
The U.S. government is reportedly turning to Canadian mining operations in a bid to break China’s stranglehold on vital mineral resources, especially lithium, cobalt, and manganese.
Chinese-owned companies in Myanmar are allegedly responsible for illegal mining operations that are destroying the natural landscape of Myanmar’s border region with China, local miners of dysprosium and terbium — two heavy rare earth minerals used in clean energy products and smart electronics — told the organization Global Witness for a report published on Tuesday.
A Brazilian investigative journalist group on Monday published documents that showed the “four most valuable companies in the world” – namely Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon – purchased gold illegally mined in the Amazon region for use in their electronic products.
The Media Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ) on Wednesday accused the Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe of “threatening” a local newspaper called The Standard after it published articles about alleged “violations by Chinese mining companies,” Voice of America (VOA) reported.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN) criticized the Biden administration for relaxing tariffs on Chinese solar panels and weighing lifting other tariffs on China while blocking mineral mining in Minnesota.
Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy said on Thursday that it hopes to attract over $2.7 billion in foreign investments to develop its lithium industry by the end of this decade. Lithium is a vital component for batteries, including those employed by electric vehicles.
Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) appears to have violated a federal conflict-of-interest law, known as the STOCK Act of 2012, by waiting almost a year to disclose a stock trade, according to Business Insider.
The Swedish Parliament has voted to ban any new extraction of oil, natural gas or coal as some right-wing parties have slammed the move as impairing Sweden’s ability to have a secure supply of energy. Sweden’s Parliament, the Riksdag, has
The Saudi Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources on Friday announced $6 billion in funding for a plant that will manufacture metals for electric vehicle batteries, plus plans for another $32 billion invested into Saudi Arabia’s mining industry.
