Lithium prices and stocks spiked after battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. halted operations at a mine in China, spurring speculation Beijing might move to suspend other projects. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/11/markets/lithium-market-cat-mines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #catl #batteries #electricvehicles #china #catl #mining
#Drumpf lackeys attempting to transfer sacred #Apache land tract in #AZ to control of private #mining company to avoid judicial review, say to #court the land transfer is inevitable and immune from judicial scrutiny and cannot be enjoined or delayed.
https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/080725_oak_flat_transfer/transfer-sacred-apache-land-inevitable-feds-tell-judge/ #RioTinto #BLM #NativeAmericans
These are the remains of the remote village that once stood at Woodhead Lead Mine just outside Carsephairn in Dumfries & Galloway. It was once home to 300 people, who lived and worked there in the 19th century. The mine closed in 1873, and the last person is said to have abandoned the village in 1954.
There is quite a lot about this little known place online, and is worth reading about what was once seen as a model community.
The Witch's Tower of Wales in Miskin, Wales
In spite of its medieval appearance and name, this building actually dates back to the Industrial Revolution.#mining #ruins #witches #towers #section-Atlas
The Witch's Tower of Wales
Gebo Ghost Town in Gebo, Wyoming
Remnants of a town from a bygone era.#coal #mining #abandoned #ghosttowns #section-Atlas
Gebo Ghost Town
"Improperly dressed, forty below zero will kill a man in about thirty minutes; he is likely past the point of rescue after fifteen." —Jeremy Thomas Gilmer for @thewalrus.ca
https://thewalrus.ca/working-at-a-diamond-mine-in-the-far-north/?src=longreads
Video as we drive past the tailings of the old Lavender Pit Copper Mine, in operation from 1950-1974. Owned by Phelps Dodge, located between Lowell and Bisbee, Arizona, site of the infamous 1917 kidnapping and deportation of striking IWW copper miners, on the orders of the Phelps Dodge management.
Photo of me in Lowell, Arizona, outside a hat shop, with antique cars on the side of the road, and an old Indian Motorcycles shop.
Now aghost town, Lowell was incorporated into Bisbee, AZ, in 2908. It was settled by Copper miners from Serbia, Finland Montenegro.
July 12, 1917, 1,300 striking IWW copper miners and their supporters were kidnapped from Bisbee, by vigilantes to crush the union. They were forced into cattle cars and illegally deported 200 miles into New Mexico, through desert, without any food or water.
The recent episode of Nations of Canada Podcast¹ buried the leed, that there was a Canadian mining town newspaper in the 19th Century called "The Daily Nugget". And it's still going!²
¹ https://nationsofcanadapodcast.wordpress.com/
² https://www.nugget.ca/
Today in Labor History August 1, 1921: Sheriff Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were murdered by Baldwin-Felts private cops. They did it in retaliation for Hatfield’s role in the Matewan labor battle in 1920, when two Felts family thugs were killed by Hatfield and his deputies. Sheriff Hatfield had sided with the coal miners during their strike. The private cops executed Hatfield and Chambers on the Welch County courthouse steps in front of their wives. This led to the Battle of Blair Mountain, where 20,000 coal miners marched to the anti-union stronghold Logan County to overthrow Sheriff Dan Chaffin, the coal company tyrant who murdered miners with impunity. The Battle of Blair Mountain started in September 1921. The armed miners battled 3,000 police, private cops and vigilantes, who were backed by the coal bosses. It was the largest labor uprising in U.S. history, and the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War. The president of the U.S. eventually sent in 27,000 national guards. Over 1 million rounds were fired. Up to 100 miners were killed, along with 10-30 Baldwin-Felts detectives and 3 national guards. They even dropped bombs on the miners from planes, the second time in history that the U.S. bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom against black residents of Tulsa, earlier that same year).
Several novels portray the Battle of Blair Mountain, including Storming Heaven, by Denise Giardina, (1987), Blair Mountain, by Jonathan Lynn (2006), and Carla Rising, by Topper Sherwood (2015). And one of my favorite films of all time, “Matewan,” by John Sayles (1987), portrays the Matewan Massacre and the strike leading up to it. The film has a fantastic soundtrack of Appalachian music from the period. And the great West Virginia bluegrass singer, Hazel Dickens, sings the title track, "Fire in the Hole." She also appears in the film as a member of the Freewill Baptist Church.
You can read my complete article on the Battle of Blair Mountain, and Matewan, here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #westvirginia #strike #union #police #vigilantes #uprising #racism #riots #blackwallstreet #film #novel #books @bookstadon
Today in Labor History August 1, 1917: IWW organizer Frank Little was lynched in Butte, Montana. Little was a Cherokee miner and member of the IWW. He went to Butte during the Speculator Mine strike to help organize the miners. Little had previously helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He had participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” On August 1, 1917, vigilantes broke into the boarding house where he was staying. They dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car and then hanged him from a railroad trestle.
Author Dashiell Hammett had been working in Butte at the time as a strike breaker for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They had tried to get him to murder Little, offering him $5,000, but he refused. He later wrote about the experience in his novel, “Red Harvest.” It supposedly haunted him throughout his life that anyone would think he would do such a thing. He was also investigated by the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) because of his ties to socialism.
Read my complete biography of Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/
Read my complete article on the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/
Read my bio of Dashiell Hammett here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/dashiell-hammett/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #racism #indigenous #immigration #mining #freespeech #civildisobedience #civilrights #antiwar #author #books #fiction #writer #novel @bookstadon
Rupestrian grasslands form an ecosystem of extremes: covering a mere 0.8% of Brazil’s territory, they are home to 15% of the nation’s flora.
The list of threats to this mountaintop ecosystem is long, but mining poses the greatest threat.
Conservation units to protect rupestrian grasslands have been set up, while universities are partnering with mining companies to drive restoration projects.
by Letícia Klein
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/scientists-communities-rush-to-save-rare-diverse-brazilian-grassland-ecosystem/
The Goodfellow’s tree #kangaroo 
is an #endangered macropod of #PapuaNewGuinea 
from sea level to the cloud forest. Threats incl. #palmoil and #mining #deforestation #Boycottpalmoil 
️#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/11/03/meet-chimbu-the-blue-eyed-bear-eared-tree-kangaroo/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
The rarest species of #orangutan, the #Tapanuli is on the verge of being lost forever due to #palmoil and #mining #deforestation destroying 80% of their range. Say no to #ecocide ️
when you shop #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/19/tapanuli-orangutan-pongo-tapanuliensis/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
New Podcast! "29 July 2019: Blackjewel blockade" on @Spreaker #history #mining #workers
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/29-july-2019-blackjewel-blockade--66814567
The seizure of one of the largest known mercury shipments in history, moving from mines in Mexico to illegal Amazon gold mining zones, exposes the wide use of the toxic metal in the rain forest, according to authorities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/28/world/mercury-amazon-gold-mining/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #gold #mining #latinamerica #southamerica #amazonriver
Colombia’s highest court throws a lifeline to 30 Indigenous nations, freezing new mining permits in the 18,000 km² Yuruparí macro-territory until rivers contaminated with mercury are cleaned up and jointly monitored.
The ruling, prompted by fish carrying toxin levels 17 times the safety limit, orders government agencies to craft Indigenous-led remediation plans and biennial progress hearings. #colombia #Indigenous #environment #pollution #Nature #global #world #LatinAmerica #mining
"Now, a new study that examines the world’s total supply of fresh water — accounting for its rivers and rain, ice and aquifers together — warns that Earth’s most essential resource is quickly disappearing, signaling what the paper’s authors describe as “a critical, emerging threat to humanity.” The landmasses of the planet are drying. In most places there is less precipitation even as moisture evaporates from the soil faster. More than anything, Earth is being slowly dehydrated by the unmitigated mining of groundwater, which underlies vast proportions of every continent. Nearly 6 billion people, or three quarters of humanity, live in the 101 countries that the study identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — portending enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.
The paper “provides a glimpse of what the future is going to be,” said Hrishikesh Chandanpurkar, an earth systems scientist working with Arizona State University and the lead author of the study. “We are already dipping from a trust fund. We don’t actually know how much the account has.”
The research, published on Friday in the journal Science Advances, confirms not just that droughts and precipitation are growing more extreme but reports that drying regions are fast expanding. It also found that while parts of the planet are getting wetter, those areas are shrinking. The study, which excludes the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, concludes not only that Earth is suffering a pandemic of “continental drying” in lower latitudes, but that it is the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world that now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water in those areas, which generally don’t have glaciers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels
Good News! Red Chris Mine - 3 miners trapped have been safely rescued!
#RedChrisMine
#mining #mines
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/red-chris-trapped-miners-bc-30m-debris-1.7592900
