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Mercury and Arsenic Hotspots Identified in Ghana’s Artisanal Gold Belt

A year-long assessment by Pure Earth and Ghana’s Environmental Protection Authority sampled soil, water, crops and fish across six of Ghana’s 13 mining regions. Results show mercury in soils at Konon...

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Six Lost in Chilean Mine: Seismic Shock Triggers Collapse

On August 1, 2025, a collapse at Chile’s El Teniente mine claimed the lives of six workers and injured nine others. Operated by state-owned Codelco, El Teniente is the world’s largest underground cop...

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Scientific Advances in Core-Surface Material Exchange and Their Significance in Mineral Exploration

New geochemical evidence has confirmed that the Earth's core may not be as geologically sealed as once believed. Recent studies analyzing lava from hotspot volcanoes, particularly in Hawaii, have det...

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The Technical Case for Solar on Retired Coal Mines

Abandoned surface coal mines worldwide are emerging as prime candidates for large-scale solar energy development. According to research by Global Energy Monitor (GEM), more than 300 mines closed sinc...

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Geotechnical Slope Design for Lithium Deposits in a Shifting Market Landscape

As the demand for lithium continues to rise, particularly from the electric vehicle and renewable energy storage sectors, hard rock lithium deposits—primarily hosted in spodumene-rich pegmatites—are...

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Two-week quarry safety inspection campaign launched by Ireland’s Health and Safety Authority (HSA)

Ireland’s Health and Safety Authority (HSA) begun on Monday 12th May a two-week quarry safety inspection campaign as it worries that many quarries do not carry out geotechnical appraisals and subsequ...

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When Dams Fail: The Growing Crisis of Tailings Management

In recent months, a disturbing pattern has emerged across three continents: catastrophic tailings dam failures that have taken lives, destroyed livelihoods, and poisoned environments. From Zambia and...

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Another Tailings Tragedy in Indonesia: Lessons from Fatufia

On March 22, 2025, a fatal tailings landslide struck the Fatufia region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, claiming the lives of three excavator operators. The landslide followed days of heavy rainfall and occu...

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Geotechnical news recap of March 2025 now on YouTube!

You can now find Geoengineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting geotechnical news of March 2025. Namely, these were: 1) Geotechnica...

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Unstable Ground: Lessons from the I-80 New Jersey Sinkhole Saga

In Wharton, New Jersey, a routine repair operation turned into a civil engineering crisis when a new 15-by-15-foot sinkhole suddenly opened on Interstate 80 in mid-March 2025. This was the third such...

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