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Mining brings some benefits to some but when extraction is over, the lack of wider benefits to all is keenly felt.
Coal seam gas developments in Queensland near Chinchilla in 2013.
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The latest survey of residents in coal seam gas regions reveals continuing lukewarm attitudes towards the industry.
Timber stockpiled along a logging road.
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A new mapping study shows that roads have sliced and diced almost the entire land surface of Earth, leaving huge areas prone to illegal logging, mining and hunting.
Swartberg House in the Karoo, designed by Jennifer Beningfield, Open Studio.
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Buildings, thinkers, books, films and works of art can ask central questions about how to live on this planet and its consequences.
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Problems occur when a country falls in love with gold, and silver might be about to get a boost from proposed solutions.
Hundreds of small-scale miners are scraping out tiny quantities of increasingly precious gold in El Corpus, southern Honduras.
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Are high levels of violence and displacement in Central America and Mexico caused by natural resource exploitation?
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More than 95% of industrial diamonds are synthetic so why aren’t more people using them in engagement rings?
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The island’s latest mining boom threatens a critically endangered lemur – and puts human lives at risk.
South Africa’s currency, the rand, has been highly volatile recently.
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South Africa’s central bank should urgently insulate the rand from further financial chaos by imposing tighter exchange controls.
The people who live on the Niyamgiri mountain have tried to say no to mining. But the government is not listening.
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Local people in India are supposed to be protected by progressive laws. But the reality is a far cry from that.
Mozambique has recorded significant poverty reduction in recent years.
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Mozambique has made significant progress in its fight against poverty despite recent economic and political challenges
Australia failed to properly capitalise on the resources boom.
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How WA managed to emerge from the mining boom with an estimated debt burden of $40 billion is one of the West’s great mysteries. Or not, if you bother to look more closely.
Australians are missing out on revenue from our country’s natural resources.
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The petroleum resource rent tax must be reformed to generate any significant revenue.
In Chile, the impact of mining and the lack of regulation of water markets have produced water scarcity conflict in local Indigenous communities.
Can you hear me now?
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Mine communications are complex, slow and unreliable. The solution to keeping miners safe, and rescuing them when disaster strikes, might just be in their hands already.
Western Australia’s government hopes its workers will look away from the mining sector towards industries like tourism and health.
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Mining will continue to be a dominant force in Western Australia’s future but the health sector is the more likely to deliver jobs and growth than tourism or agriculture, new research shows.
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A new documentary examines indigenous activism in Peru – calling attention to the dark side of the country’s economic boom.
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iPhones, Boeing 787s, Teslas and a whole host of other technologies all rely on rare metals – so much so that a new era beckons.
There are short term signs that the most recent downturn in commodities may not last so long.
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The mining industry is more resilient because of the recent downturn and it will be global supply and demand that will affect these companies in the future.
Go West.
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The literary hero represents a sea change in the region’s history.