Sentences with phrase «earth mining industry»
But regulatory pressure, coupled perhaps with the market forces of the new Molycorp mine, could be the start of a cleaner rare - earth mining industry.
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Planetary Resources is an industry - leading asteroid mining company developing technology to expand Earth's natural resource base.
Writing about government corruption in the Indian mining industry, Sauven says: «It will be in these expanding economies that the battle over the Earth's future will be won or lost.
In the 2015 Jacobin piece «Democratize the Universe,» Nick Levine argues that a collectively owned space mining industry could be a tool for wealth redistribution, while avoiding the harms of mining Earth.
Read both a national and industry perspective on Deep Earth Imaging, the opportunities for sourcing mineral, energy and groundwater resources, as well as some of CSIRO's other major investments that could benefit the minerals and mining industry.
Technologies developed through CSIRO's new Deep Earth Imaging research will deliver the best results with broad collaboration, says a leading industry geoscientist, JON HRONSKY, of Western Mining Services.
The rare earth metals mining industry is one rife with issues.
In other postings Ms Ward has blamed the pollution in China caused by mining rare earth minerals on the wind turbine industry.
The climate movement is pointing out that unconventional fossil fuel extraction techniques (fracking, tar sands excavation, deep - water drilling, mountaintop removal coal mining) are leaving or will leave toxic wastes and scars on the landscape as the fossil fuel industry gouges and lacerates the earth in search of combustible fossil resources.
As the tobacco industry invested millions in keeping its deadly secret, so also have the oil, coal, gas, and mining industries attempted to hide and discredit the link between CO2 emissions and a warming earth.»
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has cut China's target output from rare earth mines by 8.1 percent this year — alongside cooling measures for other commodities, including polysilicon — and is forcing mergers of mining companies in order to improve technical standards.
«Sometime in 2011 to 2012, Chinese domestic demand will surpass Chinese domestic production,» says Jack Lifton, an analyst and consultant who specializes in what he calls the «technology metals» and advises mining industry clients developing rare earth projects in North America.
Yet amid an uptick in the demand for metals, minerals, fuels and rare earths that feed everything from cars to construction to clean energy technologies, the mining industry — squeezed by ever greater forces — is slowly shifting, and even cleaning up its act.
As the pressures on the Earth's resources intensify, indigenous peoples bear disproportionate costs or resource - intensive and resource - extractive industries and activities such as mining, oil and gas development, large dams and other infrastructure products, logging and plantations, bio-prospecting, industrial fishing and farming, and also eco-tourism and imposed conservation projects.