Gold Mining Communities

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Enterprising town turns SC highways into rivers of cash

Herald Mail 18 Feb 2019

Put differently, any tiny place with highway traffic like Nichols could mine for gold ... Support community journalism like thisTown in decline ... They remember the little farming community in its heyday, when the tobacco exchanges were full and cotton and soybeans were widely planted....

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Dennis Cassinelli: Desert reclaims the town of Aurora

Nevada Appeal 14 Feb 2019

My cousin, Bob, was also there working at a mine near Aurora. This once thriving community was founded in 1860 when veins of extremely rich gold and silver were discovered. This was about the same time the Comstock boom was occurring in Virginia City and Gold Hill ... As the mines were excavated, water began to flow in faster than it could be pumped out....

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Land Conservation Bill Protecting Yellowstone Gateway Passes Senate: 'One of the Biggest Bipartisan Wins...Ever Seen in Congress'

Newsweek 13 Feb 2019

“Two fly-by-night companies are proposing risky gold-mining projects in Montana, north of Yellowstone National Park,” Joe Josephson, Senior Montana Conservation Organizer at the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, said in a previous statement ... “Our economy, outdoor heritage, and communities don’t run on foreign-owned gold mines....

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Stories of Old Nevada: Desert reclaims the town of Aurora

Elko Daily Free Press 09 Feb 2019

photo: Creative Commons / Thatlowdownwoman

Farm produce going to the market, Zambia

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EU gives Zambia grant to implement trade-related programs

Xinhua 07 Feb 2019

The grant, offered through the Southern African Development Community Trade Related Facility project, will be used to procure gold panning and mining equipment for the ......

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Lily mine could start recruiting new employees in March

Independent online (SA) 05 Feb 2019

Fred Arendse, SCC group chief executive, said that the Lily Mine must be opened to preserve the community and called on the continued support of the workers. “There needs to be a dawn of a new Vantage Gold mine that will benefit the people for the better," he said....

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Dalradian gold mine consultation was not a 'tickbox exercise'

BBC News 05 Feb 2019

Dalradian has applied for permission to develop the mine, which it claims could tap into £3bn in gold and provide a £750m ......

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China just quietly wrote off a chunk of Cameroon's debt. Why the secrecy?

CNN 05 Feb 2019

Gold mine tensions. China's decision to provide Cameroon with debt relief also comes at a fraught moment between the country's traditional gold-mining community and Chinese mining companies. East Cameroon is rich in gold ... A Chinese mine site in Cameroon ... Artisanal gold miners in East Cameroon....

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Reusable straws and statement socks: mining in a changed world

Business Day 04 Feb 2019

In particular, Baxter said, new technologies in certain commodities, such as deep-level gold mining, could be a game changer ... Mining must ensure it is able to coexist with other sectors as well as the communities in which they mine as an “imperative for the long-term sustainability of the industry”....

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Romeo the frog found a Juliet, thanks to an app

The Telegraph India 03 Feb 2019

Applications like ForestLink have helped counter illegal mining in the Amazonian rainforest — an example of the avarice of corporations that feeds on the apathy of administrations. Members of the Masenawa community in Peru documented an illegal gold mine in the forest and secretly sent the link to officials who then dismantled the setup....

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Scouting troop for boys continues to grow

Independent Tribune 31 Jan 2019

+5 ... Submitted photo ... +5 ... Submitted photo ... The group has held camping trips and hikes at Gold Hill, a historical trail in Salisbury and Dutch Buffalo Creek ... “The little ones, we just finished Christian heritage and flag etiquette, and we’re going to start on community.”. +5. Members of Trail Life USA Troop 2507 do some sifting at Reed's Gold Mine ... +5 ... ....

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Burned out First Nation in northern B.C. gets help from gold mining firm

Canada Dot Com 29 Jan 2019

— A First Nation struggling to recover from a devastating forest fire that burned through its community last year has received some welcome help from a gold mining firm....

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The Second Implosion of Central America

truthout 29 Jan 2019

Environmental and community activists fighting the government’s concessions to transnational companies for large-scale gold mining projects in Nicaragua have faced down riot police, as have activists in neighboring Costa Rica protesting gold mining concessions in the north of the country....