The Royal Australian Navy’s HMAS Australia, pictured here in 1937, operated in the Indian Ocean in 1941 during the Second World War. Image: Public domain A study published in the Australian Journal of Politics and History dusts off an old Australian concern...
Deep-mining in Arctic waters? This possibility became very real after the Norwegian Parliament approved the exploitation of the seabed between Svalbard and Jan Mayen Island. Image: Michael Wenger Yesterday afternoon, the Norwegian Parliament officially agreed to...
The Graphite Creek Deposit about 37 miles north of Nome on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, is revealed at Graphite Creek in this undated photo. A Graphite One Inc. exploration site is seen in the distance on the far left. Small-scale mining in this area occurred in the...
Worth its weight in subsidies (Photo: Nikolaj Krogh Larsen / KU) Sand, gravel and stone are the world’s largest group of natural resources. Due to global urbanisation and generally increasing economic prosperity, the demand for these raw materials of urban...
The mountains on the coast of West Greenland seem so far away. But thanks to climate change, they are getting closer for mining projects. (Photo: Dr Michael Wenger) The news about mining in Greenland does not stop, because the island offers a large supply of various...