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According to preliminary studies cited by the president, El Salvador’s gold reserves could be worth an astounding three trillion dollars – representing over 8,800% of the country’s current GDP...

The residents of Nevada County are putting up a fight to stop the return of the Gold Rush. They argue that any attempts to restore old gold mines would come at the cost to the environment and their lives. Their resentment...

The idea that we could make “a carbon credit” work as an international currency and fix our weather at the same time, is the stuff of Econo-alchemy.

The idea that we could make “a carbon currency” work as an international currency standard, and fix our weather at the same time, is a trap...

John Hussman warns that people may not realize how much stocks are likely to crash Dr David Evans supplied some interesting links and adds “The biggest theme in markets is that ratios eventually revert to their mean...

The Peruvian Amazon is the world’s fourth largest tropical rainforest and an important biodiversity hotspot. But as usual, people are putting financial gain over preserving endemic and endangered species. As the price of...

Lockdown has hammered oil prices but it also offers a chance to refocus on clean energy

Australia's largest hybrid renewable energy microgrid is nearly complete, with gigantic wind turbines being installed this week at the Agnew gold mine in WA.

The turbines will be used as part of a hybrid renewable energy system to power the remote Agnew gold mine in the northern Goldfields.

The first leg of the journey from China is complete but workers are now faced with the giant challenge of trucking five wind turbines more than 630 kilometres inland to a remote mine site in Western Australia.

The environmental impact of large-scale industrial activity can be felt long after the activity stops. A new study published in the journal ScienceDirect found that decades after the closure of the Giant Mine — located...

Geologists in Queensland, Australia have discovered a unique type of bacteria that forges small bits of gold into solid nuggets. The discovery could allow mining companies to reprocess previously undesirable gold into market-ready...

Did you know that there's gold and silver in your computer? These precious metals end up in landfills when people don't recycle their laptops and other electronics...

For the first time, scientists have detected gravitational waves stemming from the crash of two ultra-dense neutron stars - and the event has spawned a new era of astronomy known as “multi-messenger astronomy.” It is...

A dark shadow has been cast over the upcoming international climate talks in Lima, Peru – as the body of an indigenous leader opposed to a major mining project in Ecuador was recently found bound and buried...