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[Link] Serbia backs out of controversial Rio Tinto lithium mine
Read: 23/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Serbian authorities have abandoned plans to build a controversial lithium mine, the prime minister has said, following weeks of protests against the project set to be built by Anglo-Australian firm Rio Tinto.
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[Link] Twiggy Stardust: the man who sold, er saved, the world
Read: 14/11/2021 www.afr.com
David Bowie concealed one last alter-ego: an iron ore magnate and global warming messiah simply known as Andrew.
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[Link] Hunter coal miners don’t have enough funds for land rehabilitation
Read: 6/5/2021 www.smh.com.au
Coal miners in the Hunter Valley have failed to set aside enough money to fill in their massive voids or maintain the vegetation required to restore the landscape once their mines come to the end of their lives.
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[Link] Greenland’s leftwing anti-mine party wins snap election
Read: 9/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Greenland’s main opposition party, which is against an international mining project involving uranium and other metals on the Arctic island, has emerged as the biggest party after winning more than a third of votes in an early parliamentary election.