#mining

[70sscifiart]

Virgil Finlay

[ohthecalamity]

Hello! I don't know many other kiwis online, but I am trying my hardest to spread this cause around.

To anyone from Aotearoa reading this. Please, sign this petition. Share this cause with your followers, or anyone you know who may sign. Thank you.

A mining company, Bathurst, wants to turn Denniston Plateau into a giant open-cast mine. The nearby Stockton mine is pictured below.

Denniston is home to incredible ecology found nowhere else. Tiny plants. Fossils. Ancient sandstone landscapes. Odd-coloured geckos, flatworms, kiwi, fernbirds, peripatus, and the infamous Avatar Moth.

If this plan goes ahead, they are all lost forever. Along with any chance for study or scientific advancement.

It will also poison major waterways. Runoff from the nearby Stockton mine can, quite literally, dissolve a car.

The money is flowing into the pockets of overseas investors, and they are mainly employing overseas workers. This plan will not 'strengthen the nz economy'. It will weaken tourism, worsen our climate, and make the town of Westport even more dependent on Bathurst.

This mine will cost Aotearoa far, far more than what Bathurst pays us. The human cost, and the environmental cost, is even worse.

Denniston is on stewardship land. This mine will set a dangerous precedent for all protected spaces.

Bathurst proposed this plan a decade ago. (They are now appealing under the fast-track bill.) We beat them before, and we will beat them again!

Anyone in Aotearoa, please, sign this petition. Every signature helps.

It takes no time at all---you only have to input a name and email. An additonal comment is optional.

(and if anyone wants more details, hit me up. I have many more reasons that you should sign!)

tagging people I know are in aotearoa:

@aurafarmerlaurapalmer @shrub-a-dub @ellayeet87 @ollyoxygenfree @icarus-likes-art @bevsdee @mandable-draws @faithy-bean @chick-and-hen @blondddog @vendingmachinesoundeffects @tobsicle456-blog @solar-omens @just-fix-it-in-post @w0nderland42 @crabussy @mucking-faori @takataapui @newzealandwhy @astraladversity @sapphia @beastwhimsy @pitlanewrites @tetohe

I know some of you have already signed it, but share it around, please! I'm risking doxxing myself for this lol

[wachinyeya]

Colombia Bans All New Oil and Mining Projects in its Amazon–an Area the Size of Sweden

In Colombia, Vélez noted, some 43 oil blocks and 286 mining requests had currently not yet broken ground in various parts of the Amazon

Colombia, primer país en declarar la Amazonía como zona libre de gran minería e hidrocarburos -

Con esta medida sin precedentes, el Gobierno del Cambio da un paso histórico para proteger más de 483.000 km² del bioma amazónico —el 42% de

With this unprecedented move, the Government of Change takes a historic step to protect more than 483,000 km2 of the Amazon biome — 42% of the national territory and 7% of the great South American Amazon — and calls on the countries of the region to join in an Amazon Alliance for Life.

This declaration makes Colombia the first country in the region to lead the protection of its entire Amazon territory, ratifying its leadership in the conservation of the jungle as a power of life.

[hope-for-the-planet]

Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local grou

Protests and lawsuits from Native American tribes and other local groups stopped a graphite mining operation in South Dakota that was going forward without appropriate environment review.

The mining project has now been cancelled with the company stating it "doesn't intend to file another plan for this project.".

[kropotkindersurprise]

May 2026 - Thousands of protesters in the Dominican Republic fought back against a planned mining project and shut it down. Canadian mining company GoldQuest Mining Corporation was looking to extract gold, silver and copper in San Juan de la Maguana, but thousands of Dominicans mobilized against the planned mining complex, fearing the same devastating pollution of the soil and water as was caused by another mining project in Cotui. [video]

[whenthetraindoorsopen]

Arrangement of former mining equipment, St. Ninians Open-Cast Mine, near Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland. October 2025.

[theonion]

Emphasizing that they aimed to be as transparent about their sourcing as possible, executives at the ethical diamond company OutShine told reporters Wednesday they only used white children to mine. “As a modern, sustainable diamond company that prioritizes making all of our products cruelty-free, we want to clarify that we only use the palest, most Caucasian minors to harvest our precious stones,” said CEO Jared Mills, adding that OutShine took the utmost care to ensure every single mine it used exclusively employed 10-year-olds with blond hair and blue eyes from affluent suburbs around Boston, Milwaukee, and the greater Chicagoland area.