ESGold transforms abandoned mines into sustainable revenue streams, pioneering environmental restoration while extracting valuable metals from legacy sites. Innovative mining strategy offers unique investment potential. #Sustainability #Mining
ESGold Corp. revolutionizes mining by converting historical tailings into profitable gold and silver resources, demonstrating sustainable extraction technologies in Colombia's mining regions #Mining #Sustainability
Spectacled Bears are the original peace-loving Paddington Bear in #Venezuela
#Colombia
#Peru
#Ecuador
Threatened by #agriculture #mining and hunting - fight for them and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/10/23/spectacled-bear-tremarctos-ornatus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
#ScienceQuickly by #ScientificAmerican:
The Deep Sea’s Mysterious Oxygen Source
#Mining the Deep Sea Could Threaten a Source of #Ocean #Oxygen
Deep-sea rocks packed with valuable metals may also be making oxygen in the deep, dark ocean—raising new questions about the cost of mining them.
Webseite der Episode: https://www.sciencequickly.com
Mediendatei: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/SAM2724862895.mp3
Four-horned #Chameleons of #Cameroon
#Nigeria
are nature's camouflage experts. These stunning #lizards are #vulnerable due to #deforestation
for #palmoil #cocoa and #mining. Help them to survive! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-1iH?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Today in Labor History August 25, 1921, the Battle of Blair Mountain began in Logan County, West Virginia. It was the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War, and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. 10,000-15,000 coal miners battled 3,000 cops, private cops and vigilantes, who were backed by the coal bosses. Up to 100 miners died in the fighting, along with 10-30 Baldwin-Felts detectives and three national guards. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. One million rounds were fired. And the government bombed striking coal miners by air, using homemade bombs and poison gas left over from World War I. This was the second time the government had used planes to bomb its own citizens within the U.S. (the first was against African American during the Tulsa pogrom, earlier that same year).
The Battle of Matewan had occurred just a year before. Baldwin-Felt private police tried to arrest Sheriff Sid Hatfield, who supported the miners, using a bogus arrest warrant. Unbeknownst to the detectives, armed miners had surrounded them. No one knows who shot first, but when the smoke had cleared, there were seven dead detectives, including Albert and Lee Felts, and four dead townspeople, including the mayor. On August 1, 1921, surviving members of Baldwin-Felts assassinated Hatfield in broad daylight, on the steps of Welch County courthouse, as his wife watched in horror. As news of his death spread, miners began arming themselves and threatened to march to the anti-union stronghold of Logan County to overthrow Sheriff Dan Chaffin, the coal company tyrant who murdered miners with impunity. Fearing a bloodbath, Mother Jones tried to dissuade them from marching. Many accused her of losing her nerve. The march led to all-out war, as the authorities sent in police, private cops, and deputized vigilantes to battle the miners.
You can read my full article on the battle and its historical roots here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
Today in Labor History August 25, 1819: Allan Pinkerton was born. He founded the Pinkerton private police force, whose strike breaking detectives (Pinkertons, or 'Pinks') slaughtered dozens of workers in various labor struggles and scores more imprisoned. Ironically, Pinkerton, himself, was a violent, radical leftist as a youth. He fought cops in the streets as a member of the Chartist Movement. He had to flee the UK in order to not be imprisoned. Yet in America, he became the nation’s first super cop. He created the secret service. He foiled an assassination attempt against Lincoln. He fine-tuned the art of spying on activists and planting agents provocateur in their ranks. His agents played a major role in destroying the miners’ union in the 1870s, as portrayed in my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill.” Later, the Pinkertons assassinated numerous organizers with the IWW and came within inches of successfully getting Big Bill Hayward convicted on trumped up murder charges. They tried to hire author Dashiell Hammett to murder Native American IWW organizer Frank Little. He declined, but wrote about his experience as a Pinkerton agent in his first novel, Red Harvest.
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Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!
You can read my biography of Pinkerton here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/
My biography of Frank Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #pinkertons #IWW #union #police #books #fiction #historicalfiction #AnywhereButSchuylkill #mining #coal #writer #author #FrankLittle #indigenous #novel @bookstadon
#NuclearTransparencyWatch member Andrey Ozharovskii was detained in #Mongolia for measuring radiation outside an #Orano #uranium #mining site. He still is waiting for the return of his passport. NTW sent this open letter. https://wisenederland.nl/citizen-scientist-andrey-ozharovskii-detained-by-mongolian-authorities-after-measuring-radiation-levels-near-uranium-mines/
No environmental assessment for a mining operation? Loophole laws make it so.
"it is unlikely the Record Ridge mine would result in impacts that similar to other projects that require an assessment.” “Unlikely" is carrying a lot in this statement of why they don’t need a permit. #Canada #Mining
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/record-ridge-mine-environmental-assessment-1.7616302
#GiantOtters are the agile, graceful guardians of Amazonian rivers in #SouthAmerica
#Endangered by #gold #mining
#palmoil and cattle ranches. Help them in the supermarket, go #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/09/04/giant-otter-pteronura-brasiliensis/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
How it started and how it went at Nenthead Mines today. Finally, finally, got this drain rebuilt.
The site was busy with mine tours as part of the Nenthead 200 celebrations. That's 200 years since this village, planned around the Lead Mines, was developed.
#Volunteer #mining #NPennines
Here at Nenthead Mines, @alstonvicar has just given the mines a blessing with readings and prayer. Part of 'Nenthead 200'.
Also celebrating, people of the Quaker faith, still meeting in Alston and have historic ties to the Lead mining industry in the North Pennines.
I'm still working on the stone drain and stopped while this was going on but could certainly do with some help, whether from above, or in a more physical way.
#Volunteer #mining
Deep in the #Congo is a curious creature a bit like a horse or a giraffe. The #Okapi is to the Congo what the Panda is to China. #Palmoil and #mining #deforestation threaten their survival #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/29/okapi-okapia-johnstoni/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
What to know about China’s new regulations on rare earths.
From @AssociatedPress: "The 17 rare earth elements, including such minerals as germanium, gallium and titanium, aren’t actually rare. But they’re hard to find in a high enough concentration to make mining them worth the investment."
Here's their link for more info if anyone is curious to know more.
https://www.hechoonline.org/blog/resolution-coppers-mine-at-oak-flat-myths-vs-facts
Today in Labor History August 21, 1920: Ongoing violence by coal operators and their paid goons in the southern coalfields of West Virginia led to a three-hour gun battle between striking miners and guards that left six dead. 500 Federal troops were sent in not only to quell the fighting, but to ensure that scabs were able to get to and from the mines. A General Strike was threatened if the troops did not cease their strikebreaking activities. This was just 3 months after the Matewan Massacre, in which the miners drove out the seemingly invincible Baldwin-Felts private police force, with the help of their ally, Sheriff Sid Hatfield. 1 year later, Sheriff Hatfield was gunned down on the steps of the courthouse by surviving members of the Baldwin-Felts Agency. News spread and miners began arming themselves, leading to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. Over 100 people were killed in the 5-day battle, including 3 army soldiers and up to 20 Baldwin-Felts detectives. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. 1 million rounds were fired. And the government dropped bombs from aircraft on the miners, only the second time in history that the government bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom against African American residents of Tulsa, during the so-called Tulsa Riots).
The Battle of Blair Mountain is depicted in Storming Heaven (Denise Giardina, 1987), Blair Mountain (Jonathan Lynn, 2006), and Carla Rising (Topper Sherwood, 2015). And the Matewan Massacre is brilliantly portrayed in John Sayles’s film, “Matewan.”
Read my history of the Battle of Blair Mountain here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #strike #union #westvirginia #matewan #BattleOfBlairMountain #uprising #civilwar #GeneralStrike #tulsa #massacre #racism #books #fiction #film #writer #author #novel @bookstadon
Ukrainian arrested over Nord Stream pipeline attacks https://www.bocvip.com/991810/ukrainian-arrested-over-nord-stream-pipeline-attacks/ #China #gas #Mining #NordStream2 #oil #pipeline #Russia #RussiaUkraine #RussiaUkraineNews #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaUkraineWarLive #RussiaUkraineWarNews #RussiaUkraineWarRussian #RussiaUkraineWarUpdate #RussiaVsUkraine #RussiaVsUkraineWar #RussiaWar #RussiaWarUkraine #RussiaUkraineUpdate #RussianUkraineWar #Sky #SkyNews #Ukraine #UkraineRussia #UkraineRussiaNews #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar #UkraineWarNews #war