https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/community-members-decry-traditional-leaders-power-amid-south-african-mine-plans/

This needs a #boost @ai6yr

#Mining #SouthAfrica #Jindal #EnvironmentalDestruction #Schools #razed

Here is a Pit Check check from Gascoigne Wood Colliery. Part of the Selby coal field. Worked from the 1970s, with mining ceasing by 2004. Producing 12 million tons a year at its peak in 1993-4, it was originally estimated at producing 600 milliion tons, but only ended up producing 121 million tons. A Pit Check was a way of checking miners into / out of the mine, so you oculd tell who was down there at any given time. Some info here: https://middletonlife.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/pit-or-colliery-checks-tokens-or-tallies/
#TokenTuesday #Mining #Coal #Token

Crypto companies form Texas blockchain group to advocate for clear regulations - a16z crypto, Coinbase, Ledger, Bain Capital Crypto, Blockchain Ca... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-companies-form-texas-blockchain-group-advocate-clear-regulations #cryptofreedomallianceoftexas #mining #texas #dao

Charge!

"Colossal Cache of Lithium Found in US May Be World's Largest
"It could change the dynamics of lithium globally...""

https://futurism.com/the-byte/lithium-found-us-worlds-largest-cache

#Lithium #Batteries #Automobile #Hybrid #EV #News #Mining #US

Today in Labor History September 10, 1897: A sheriff and deputies killed 19 striking miners and wounded 40 others in Lattimer mine, near Hazelton, Pennsylvania during a peaceful mining protest. Many of those killed were originally brought in as strikebreakers, but then later organized and joined the strike. The miners were mostly Polish, Lithuanian, Slovak and German. The massacre was a turning point for the UMW. Working and safety conditions were terrible. 32,000 miners had died from 1870-1897, just in the northeastern coalfields of Pennsylvania. Wages had dropped 17% since the mid-1890s.

The strike began in mid-August, when teenage mule drivers walked off the job to protest the consolidation of stables, which had forced them to walk much further just to get to work. After a scuffle between drivers and supervisors, two thousand men walked out, as well. Soon, all the mines in the region had joined the strike. Most of the men who weren’t already members of the UMW quickly joined the union. Up to 10,000 miners were now on strike. The mine owners’ private police, known as the Coal & Iron Police (miners called them Cossacks, for their brutality), was too small to quash the strike, so they called on the sheriff to intervene. He mustered a posse of 100 Irish and English immigrants, who confronted the miners as they marched toward Latimer, on Sep 10. Along the way, they joked about how many miners they were going to kill.

The massacre provoked a near uprising. The sheriff called for the deployment of the National Guard, which sent 2,500 troops to quell the unrest. 10 days later, a group of Slavic women, armed with fire pokers and rolling pins, led 150 men and boys to shut down the McAdoo coal works, but were stopped by the National Guards. The sheriff, and 73 deputized vigilantes, were put on trial. However, despite evidence clearly showing that most of the miners had been shot in the back, and none had been armed, they were all acquitted.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #coal #mining #union #strike #latimer #massacre #police #PoliceBrutality #PoliceMurder #immigration

#GiantOtters are the agile, graceful guardians of Amazonian rivers in #SouthAmerica. #Endangered by #gold #mining, #palmoil #soy and cattle ranches. Help them in the supermarket, go #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/09/04/giant-otter-pteronura-brasiliensis/ via @palmoildetect

A visit to The Valleys would be incomplete without exploring the Big Pit National Coal Museum, the free underground tour is a unique opportunity to see a mine still technically registered as in a working state. The experience of riding the elevator down and being taken through the levels is made even better by the tour guides, former miners, who have many a tale to tell. #mining #thevalleys #wales #cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⛏️👷🏼‍♂️

#ToxicAir Resulted in #Cancer for #Navajo, #Apache and #WesternShoshone

#Copper and Gold #Mining, and #Coal-Fired Power Plants, Resulted in Cancer for Navajo, Apache, and Western #Shoshone

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 4, 2023

"A copper smelter poisoning the air of Apaches, the coal-fired power plants on the #NavajoNation, and gold mining on Western Shoshone land, are among the top causes of cancer from #AirPollution in the United States, according to a new report, Poison in the Air, by #ProPublica.

"The #FreeportMcMoran copper smelter in #MiamiArizona -- located between the #SanCarlos #ApacheNation, and Apaches Sacred #OakFlat -- is the third in the United States for producing toxic air pollution causing cancer. The poison air means the central Arizona community of Miami has ten times the EPA's acceptable risk of cancer. Apaches are now in federal court battling both the mining industry, and the #BidenAdministration to stop another #CopperMine nearby at Oak Flat which would destroy their ceremonial place."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09/toxic-air-resulted-in-cancer-for-navajo.html

#EnvironmentalRacism #ToxicAir #Mining #IndigenousNews #SaveOakFlat #NativeAmericanNews

“In the tradition of Upton Sinclair and Jack London, Michael Dunn gives us a gritty portrait of working-class life and activism during one of the most violent eras in U.S. labor history. Anywhere but Schuylkill is a social novel built out of passion and the textures of historical research. It is both a tale of 1870s labor unrest and a tale for the inequalities and injustices of the twenty-first century.”

-Russ Castronovo, author of Beautiful Democracy and Propaganda 1776.

Available on Sep 19, 2023, from all the usual online distributors, or direct from my publisher: http://wix.to/M9gMx11

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #HistoricalFiction #ficiton #novel #coal #mining #author #writer @bookstadon

#PlaneAlert ICAO: #A9C9C5 Tail: #N73M Flt: #GLF27
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Aircraft: #Gulfstream G550
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#GLF5 #Chemicals #Mining #StickyTape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M
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Hackers Exploit Windows Tool to Deploy Crypto-Mining Malware - Hackers have targeted a popular Windows-based software packaging tool to infect computers... - https://cryptonews.com/news/hackers-exploit-windows-tool-to-deploy-crypto-mining-malware.htm #blockchainnews #hacking #mining

Adam Bandt urges Australians to ‘embrace’ civil disobedience and join climate protests

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/30/adam-bandt-urges-australians-to-embrace-civil-disobedience-and-join-climate-protests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Greens leader says Albanese government is ‘hellbent on opening more coal and gas mines’ and people must ‘fight back’.
#Australia #climate #environment #bribery #corruption #mining #corporation #coal #gas #communitydefense #selfdefense #collapse

Windows tool targeted by hackers deploys crypto mining malware - Software installers affected are mainly used for 3D modeling and ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/windows-tool-targeted-hackers-crypto-mining-malware #cryptojacking #hackers #mining #hacks

#Bitcoin #mining aided #Texas's #electrical grid, when the #bitcoinMining company #RiotPlatforms reduced its power usage amid the summer heatwave.

https://news.bitcoin.com/riot-showcases-demand-response-strategy-bitcoin-minings-role-in-strengthening-texas-energy-grid/

> only a handful of business operations can effectively implement significant demand response systems, and #cryptoMining might be the most optimal at shedding load.

#crypto #btc #cryptocurrency #electricity @crypto @bitcoin

Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms Smart Energy Strategy Yields $31 Million in Savings - Prominent Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Riot Platforms has reported significant cost savings ... - https://cryptonews.com/news/bitcoin-miner-riot-platforms-smart-energy-strategy-yields-31-million-savings.htm #bitcoinnews #bitcoin #mining

Inside Odisha's Crackdown on Adivasis: Bauxite Mining, UAPA, and Forest Act

What explains the state crackdown on Dalit-adivasi activists in south Odisha's Bauxite-rich districts?

https://www.thequint.com/news/india/odisha-crackdown-on-dalit-adivasis-fighting-for-land

#odisha #adivasis #dalits #BauxiteMining #UAPA #ForestRights #mining #bauxite #vedanta #environment #CivilRights #DraconianLaws #india

Out with Parergon, Guy Geltner, "Ecological Impacts and Environmental Perceptions of Mining in Europe, 1200-1550: Preliminary Notes".

Article here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/article/905418
AAM here: https://osf.io/preprints/bodoarxiv/rkduw/

#environment #envhist #history #historyofscience #mining #mininghistory #ecology #preindustrial

Africa Climate Summit. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/spotprent~bbc70587/

#AfricaClimateSummit #Africa #resources #mining #exploitation #neocolonialism

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