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Asbestos Lawsuits Prompt Vanderbilt Minerals to File Bankruptcy
Feb 18 2026 // Vanderbilt Minerals, which mines materials used in industrial products, filed for bankruptcy after its cash flow was overwhelmed by an increase in lawsuits that accuse the company of once selling items contaminated by...
Congo Fighting Drove Spike in Insurance Costs, Squeezing Miners, Insurer Says
Feb 4 2026 // Political violence insurance premiums in Democratic Republic of Congo jumped as much as tenfold last year due to unrest in the east, boosting insurers but lifting costs for copper-cobalt miners, insurance executives told...
Texas Data Centers, Crypto Miners Reduced Power During Storm
Jan 30 2026 // Electric Reliability Council of Texas Chairman Bill Flores said Thursday that some data centers and cryptocurrency miners voluntarily curtailed power use during the recent winter storm that strained the state’s grid...
Flood in Vale Mining Area Damaged Brazilian River, State Government Says
Jan 27 2026 // Overflowing water in a mining area owned by Brazil’s Vale caused environmental damage as it reached the local Maranhao River, Minas Gerais state government said in a statement on Monday. The overflow on Sunday, in...
US Steel Sued for Pregnancy Discrimination at Minnesota Mine
Dec 24 2025 // U.S. Steel, a multinational steel and iron mining company, violated federal law when it failed to provide an employee with a reasonable accommodation for her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Climate Change Is Straining Alaska’s Arctic; a Mining Road May Push it Past the Brink
Dec 12 2025 // Ice blocks drift past Tristen Pattee’s boat as he scans the banks of Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk River for caribou. His great uncle Ernest steadies a rifle on his lap. It’s the last day of September, and by...
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