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6 days agoIllegal mining is planned in the boardrooms of contract mafias while small pick and shovel operators, sometimes with massive machinery, go to work deep underground. This is the all encompassing situation of illicit mining in South Africa - at least according to the DA. On Thursday, MPs deliberated on the ANC-sponsored debate on illegal mining ...
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Despite protests by villagers, G&M officials unmoved Gopal Sharma KATHUA, Jan 15: Illegal mining mafia in connivance with some groups from Punjab and insiders in the G&M Department, is carrying out its activities by digging deep river bed near prestigious BRO's bridge over river Ujh, posing great threat to its existence on Old Samba-Kathua road near Kotpunnu village in Kathua district ...
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GOLD / 30 MAY 2022 BY SCOTT MISTLER-FERGUSON EN. Large-scale illegal gold mining is operating in plain sight on the Lawa River, a natural border between French Guiana and Suriname, despite public efforts from both governments to end the environmentally destructive practice. Photographs obtained by InSight Crime show at least six gold dredgers ...
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Members of the South African Police Services (Saps) raid mining quarries on 8 April 2021 in Krugersdorp. Picture: Gallo Images/Daily Sun/Morapedi Mashashe. They live underground, are armed to the ...
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Devi said that forest officials had recently unearthed illegal mining in Sirsirwa forest of Koderma. Contractors had illegally dug 250 feet into the ground of a forest area to extract stones and complaints were also lodged against 22 individuals by police in connection with the case.
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The illegal mining provides a chance at income for unemployed South Africans and immigrants. But in the long term the activity will make it harder to attract a legitimate mining company to an abandoned site because some of the more easily accessible minerals will have been removed by the illegal operations, Major said.
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Dubai and Singapore combined use almost 1.5 billion tons of sand to create new islands. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai alone used 330,000 cubic meters of concrete — that would require over 5 million tons of sand alone to make. Islands created in the Persian Gulf off of Dubai. Islands like these, and the rapid rates of construction, have resulted ...
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The current cost of mining in China ($8k) is already lower than the token's market value, which is around USD 11.500,00 as we write this. But if you don't pay for electricity, then it's way lower than the global price. It means that illegal miners in China are having a field day and making insane profits.
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U.S.-Backed Companies Poised to Expand Mining in the Amazon It's illegal to mine or prospect for precious metals on Indigenous lands in Brazil, but two bills could change that. Top: An Indigenous man's hand reads "Stop killing us" during a Feb. 2020 protest against a bill that would open Indigenous lands to mining in Brazil.
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Mafia rules the roost, bridges on verge of threat Avtar Bhat KATHUA/SAMBA, June 30: Throwing all rules and regulations to winds, the Mining mafia rules the roost in twin districts of Samba and Kathua by perpetuating loot of natural resources with authorities at the helm watching as mute spectators. The unabated illegal mining from various rivers in twin districts continues under the very nose ...
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The illegal mining was allegedly taking place in the fields of Harjinder Singh Baggi, who is the Bathinda district general secretary of BKU Ugrahan. While Baggi has not been named in the FIR, three tractor and earthmover machine drivers — Sukhjeet Singh, Gurmail Singh and Jeeta Singh — have been arrested.
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Download the Brief THE ISSUE While the economic, humanitarian, and political crisis in Venezuela worsens, criminal groups—including gangs, Colombian guerrilla groups, and colectivos (paramilitary groups)—are competing for control of the country's valuable mineral resources. These resources include bauxite, coltan, diamonds, and, particularly, gold. Illegal mining is causing irreversible ...
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A major UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon this week with a flurry of promises to expand marine protected areas, ban deep-sea mining, and...
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Against the backdrop of loosening restrictions on mining both nationally and locally, Pala'wan leaders and local NG0s say the logging could be a precursor for a resurgence of mining. The ...
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RANCHI, Aug 24: The Enforcement Directorate raided multiple locations in Jharkhand on Wednesday and recovered 2 AK series assault rifles as part of an ongoing money-laundering investigation into alleged illegal mining in the state, official sources said. The weapons were kept in an almirah at a home in Ranchi, they said. The sources identified the premises to be linked to a person — Prem ...
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Mathale said police had the capacity to address illegal mining but, at the same time, admitted there was a shortage of human resources. This he ascribed to the growing population in the country ...
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The agency noted that illegal mining of resources such as gold, lead, zinc, tantalite, iron ore, tin, columbite and gemstones was being perpetrated in about 10 states in the country, notably in...
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Aug 4, 2022And more than 80 illegal miners have been arrested and charged with being in the country illegally after a video film crew at a mine dump close to West Village, a suburb of Krugersdorp on the West...
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Illegal sand mining is down by roughly 50 percent. The drone-based raids have caused fear among illegal sand miners," Shukla said. Elaborating on how the system operates, Shukla said drones operated by a third party are flown to the sites based on information provided by sources. "These help us collect evidence against the illegal miners.
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Although clearing of old-growth trees for agriculture, logging, and mining has been banned since 2015, half of one percent of Madagascar's vestigial protected forests are disappearing every year,...
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At the same time, opportunistic actors and criminal groups involved in land-grabbing, deforestation, illegal mining and wildlife poaching are taking advantage of the fact that governments are focused on COVID-19 instead of on conservation. There are reports of increased deforestation in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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The General also said that illegal operations are becoming more and more "industrialized," as his team of 200 officials was able to corroborate during today's operation. They found hoses and pumps...
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Illegal mining expanded by nearly 500 percent on protected indigenous reservations in Brazil in a decade, and by more than 300 percent on protected park lands, according to a study released Monday. The massive surge in mining activity from 2010 to 2020 raised new concerns about the impact on the Amazon rainforest, where the race for gold is ...
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By: Creamer Media Reporter 2nd September 2022 Mineral exploration and development company Silver Bull Resources has announced the termination of an option agreement with a subsidiary of South32,...
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Tin mining in one of the world's main producers of the metal has sparked the latest in a series of conflicts between illegal miners and traditional fishers in Indonesia. The incident stemmed ...
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Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Sept 10: RS Pura, Chinore and Kanachack Police seized five vehicles involved in illegal mining. As per police sources, teams from Police Station RS Pura led by SHO Inspector Pawan Kumar, Police Post Chinore led by PSI Amit Singh and Police Station Kanachack led by SHO Inspector Rahul Mahajan raided different locations in their respective areas and seized 5 ...
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Jun 2, 2022To counter illegal mining in La Pampa, Peruvian authorities launched Operation Mercury, which aimed to remove more than 5,000 illegal miners from the area. The operation started in 2019, with the deployment of 1,200 police, 300 soldiers and 70 prosecutors. This operation signaled a step forward in the fight against illegal mining in Peru, as it ...
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Illegal mining footprint swells nearly 500% inside Brazil Indigenous territories. by Lais Modelli 18 May 2022. Illegal miners expanded their footprint in Indigenous territories in Brazil by nearly ...
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District Chief Executive, Clement Opoku Gyamfi, said even though fighting illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, is challenging, the Assembly will not be discouraged. "We are doing a lot to...
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A study by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) revealed that illegal mining damaged a total of 11 163 hectares of land while degrading 1 555km of riverbank ecosystem in the country. EMA...
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SUJAY GUPTA in the weekly Herald TV debate Point-Counterpoint explores what is leading to the unabated illegal sand mining in Goa, how is it damaging the State's environment and its long term implications on the fragile ecosystem
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Illegal chrome syndicates thriving in SA, and coal could be next, warns global initiative. 22 Jun. Speaker linked to illegal mining gang. 08 May. 4 suspected 'illegal miners' found dead on side of Benoni road. 13 Apr. 7 bodies retrieved from mine in Primrose, say Gauteng police. 20 Mar.
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Illegal mining facilitates the nexus between drugs smugglers, terrorists, nurtured and controlled by ISI. Crushers in border areas should be allowed only between 6 am to 7 pm as due to noise any ...
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Colombia's southern department of Nariño is home to an extortion scheme, where two of the country's largest criminal organizations, the ELN and the Urabeños, shake down illegal miners. These groups have made more than 10 billion Colombian pesos (around $3 million) in Nariño over the last two years by forcing miners to hand over part of ...
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Illegal sand mining across rivers of Bihar has led the state government to incur losses running up to Rs 600 to Rs 700 crore every year, according to officials of the department. The mines and geology department in Bihar has, since July 2017, had 11 employees dismissed from service and 22 others put under suspension for their purported ...
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The 2018 coal mining accident shook the world, when 19 miners who went inside an illegal rat-hole mine in East Jaintia Hills never came out alive (except an exceptionally lucky one from Assam). That's when the government of Meghalaya knocked on the door of the Supreme Court for a revision of the NGT ban in the state for legalising coal mining.
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(Reuters) - Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil's indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, a Reuters review of exclusive data from satellite images shows. The Yanomami are the largest of South America's tribes that remain relatively isolated from the outside world.
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