Sentences with phrase «small mining operations»

Mining pools exist in general because as mining became competitive - block rewards are worth roughly $ 58,000 at press time - individual miners and small mining operations struggled to keep up in the race to win rewards.

The Congressional Western Caucus has raised complaints that the site includes nonwilderness Forest Service land, as well as a small mining operation, and has called for unspecified cuts to the site.

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We set up a small Bitcoin and Ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.»

As such, mining firms with significant operations revolving around silver or other industrial or precious metals are excluded from that fund, which generally includes a much more meaningful tilt towards smaller companies.

Between 2010 and 2014, a previous junior mining company developed a small underground operation that was put on care and maintenance due to engineering and financial issues, as well as a downward trending gold price.

Because it was possible to run large - scale ASIC mining operations, mining became a way for a few small groups of people to essentially control the monetary supply of various cryptocurrencies.

The report noted that China had improved its mine safety record in recent years through the closure of thousands of small operations.

The elements of the fight have included public education, suspension of small scale mining operations to allow recovery of polluted water bodies, training of 400 small scale miners in sustainable mining practices at the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa and establishment of Operation Vanguard, a 400 man strong security force to maintain security in mining districts and to enforce the ban.

A code of practice for small - scale mining operations will be outdoored and committees will be formed in all mining Districts to fight illegal mining and address issues relating to small - scale miners

In an interview, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini outlined concrete measures he intends to take to arrest this galamsey phenomenon and increase the number of legalized small scale mining operations.

Much like the City of Plattsburgh, whose Common Council last month imposed a moratorium on new commercial cryptocurrency mining operations due to concerns over energy consumption and fire suppression, the Village of Rouses Point is allocated a comparatively small amount of cheap hydropower each month, around 13,844 kilowatts.

He also said the accused «conspired to undertake small scale mining operation without license contrary to section 23 (1) of the criminal offences Act 1960, Act 29».

It follows demands by a civil society group, Artisanal and Small scale Mining - Africa Network for transparency in the assessment of the first phase of the operations of the...

«Mining is a very small part of our operation,» Burba says, noting that mining the ore containing the rare earths is only 10 percent of his company'sMining is a very small part of our operation,» Burba says, noting that mining the ore containing the rare earths is only 10 percent of his company'smining the ore containing the rare earths is only 10 percent of his company's cost.

«The reason is because some local government officials are investing in those small coal mining companies,» he said, adding that the collusion of the local government and small coal miners thwarts Beijing's efforts to shut down the low - tech coal companies whose operations often harm the environment.

In 13 years, small - scale mining operations increased by 600 % and the amount of land in the state affected by gold mining quadrupled, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

As of 2012, small illicit mines accounted for more than half of all mining operations in the region.

Also at Horseshoe Cove, the army also established a hardworking Marine Repair Shop that provided on - going maintenance for the small civilian boats conscripted for use in the mine operation.

The Beach Cottage Kleinzee is situated in Kleinzee a small village on the west coast of the Northern Cape province and is best known for its diamond - mining operations.

The cumulative impact from many small, artisanal mining operations can result in just as big a mess as a conventional open - pit mine.

They found that mining operations — even relatively small ones — can seriously debilitate ecosystems.

It does so by going beyond the now classic Carbon Tracker analysis (the foundation of McKibben's 2012 article), updating it by focusing not on the entire body of fossil - fuel reserves, but on the smaller set (roughly 30 % of the «proven» reserves) of reserves that have already been «developed» — the «oil fields, gas fields, and coal mines that are already in operation or under construction.»

For the time being, NVIDIA is primarily involved in the gaming business, data centers and self - driving cars, and cryptocurrency and mining operations account for only small portions of the company's profits.

Consider bitcoin cash (BCH), where the main mining operations are historically concentrated in the hands of a small group of people (there are also concerns about ownership of BCH and exchanges where it is traded).

The long - term vision is a thriving community of casual miners who put what resources they can spare into Bitcoin Gold, rather than a small, secretive group of top - tier mining operations who spend millions of dollars on massive mining rigs.

The dominance of Bitmain in the Bitcoin hardware mining sector has gone fairly unchallenged, leading to what has become a more centralized operation, with mining or hash power being held in increasingly smaller hands.

But for small U.S. towns in upstate New York and Washington, a mining operation makes a big dent in local energy resources.