On the 23rd to the 24th of April, a historic court case for mining-affected communities took place at the North Gauteng High Court in Tshwane. The Amadiba Crisis Committee, represented by their lawyers Richard Spoors Inc. and the Legal Resources Centre, took the Department of Mineral Resources to court in an attempt to get a declaratory order that would prevent proposed … [Read more...]
Wild Coast doc to give special community screenings
What are the prospects - pros and cons to the local community - of titanium excavation along the pristine Wild Coast? Award-winning South African film maker Ryley Grunenwald’s The Shore Break is an environmental documentary, political thriller, family feud story, and classic David and Goliath tale. Filmed in Pondoland in the Eastern Cape, it follows pro- and anti-mining … [Read more...]
Asteroid Mining our way to intergalactic colonisation
As our planet runs out of minerals and resources to support our even expanding need for development, is asteroid-mining a possible and viable option in the foreseeable future? Asteroid mining may sound like a science fiction term and it has had some pretty awful notions associated with it. Our imagination and history of the past often makes us picture certain greedy and … [Read more...]
