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UK backs suspension of deep-sea mining in environmental U-turn
Thérèse Coffey says data will be gathered on impact of emerging industry and UK will not support licences in meantime
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South Crofty: Work begins to remove water from tin mine
Work is under way to pump millions of litres of floodwater out of a former tin mine in Cornwall.
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Scottish gold mine owner Scotgold in new talks
Scotgold Resources, which has been developing Scotland’s only gold mine at Cononish in Argyll, has revealed it is in discussions with a new “strategic investor” which could enable it to continue as…
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Cornish Tin granted royal approval for gold search as part of Cornwall’s mining revival
Cornish Tin has been granted permission by the King to search for gold and silver as part of a revival of Cornwall’s mining industry.
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Fortescue opens UK tech innovation center
ASX-listed Fortescue has cut the ribbon on its $23-million technical innovation centre in the UK.
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Essential integration of mining with circular economy highlighted at FT Mining Summit
Circularity is already practised at many mine sites, which use circular principles to reduce waste and conserve water. But to achieve full circularity for products – from production to consumption to reuse…
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Cornish Lithium raises £5.1m through crowdfunding
UK-based Cornish Lithium has raised £5.1 million through crowdfunding
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Tajikistan or Britain? Origin of famous Bronze Age tin ingots sparks controversy
The tin ingots found on a merchant ship that sank around 1320 BCE off what is now the west coast of Turkey near Uluburun may have originated in Cornwall, Britain, the Saxon-Bohemian Erzgebirge or…
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UK’s ‘first large scale’ lithium refinery gets green light on Teesside
A plant which will refine lithium – a material used in electric car batteries – is to be built on Teesside.
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Many society organisations are calling on the EBRD to reconsider its approach to mining investments
Twenty civil society organisations from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Mongolia, Uganda, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, as well as seven international environmental and human rights organisations, are calling on the European…