Not quite the goldmine it was cracked up to be (Photo: LNS) Since 2016, when it overtook what was then Greenland’s sole operational mine, LNS Greenland has had an obligation to pay the hamlet of Qeqertarsuatsiaat, where the Aappaluttoq ruby mine is located, 250,000...
Employed until October (Photo: Baffinland) Faced with the prospect of having half of its workforce with no work to do by early October, Baffinland, the operator of an iron mine in Nunavut, has told 1,100 of its employees that they will be idled if territorial...
Citron, a major source of zinc (Photo: Ironbark Zinc) Start talking about Greenland’s Citronen mining project, and you may find yourself using a number of superlatives. Located at 83° North, if established, it will be the world’s northernmost mine, for example. And,...
Tailing-storage facilities, such as the tailings pool at Nevada’s Goldstrike Mine can take up as much space as the mine itself. (Photo: Nasa) Once miners have taken what they want out of the ground and separated it from the ore, there is a lot left over that...
The road that would run through it (Map: Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority) It is described as America’s ultimate wilderness and a place where outsiders go to seek solitude, but, ever since 1980, and the passage of a piece of federal legislation...