Norway's minority government and two opposition parties have agreed to allow seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic region, they said on Tuesday, in a key step towards full-scale ocean mining.Web
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In order to protect the fragile environment of Antarctic, the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (1991) banned all mineral activities for a 50-year period, except for scientific purposes. The Protocol will be renewed in 2048, and discussion of possible future mining in the region has already begun.Web
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A new Cold War: mining geopolitics in the Arctic circle Arctic ice is melting and unveiling new opportunities for shipping routes and potential mineral claims. With China, Russia, and the US all eyeing a share of the Arctic's abundant natural resources, we look at the geopolitical situation around the North …
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Alaska is also home to abundant resources: 12 percent of the world's coal, 3 percent of the world's zinc, 3.5 percent of the world's gold, 1.6 percent of the world's lead, 1.5 percent of the world's silver, and 0.3 percent of the world's copper, as per recent estimates.Web
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"The Arctic communities are actively involved in the deployment and integration of clean energy technologies like wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, energy …Web
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The space Space Science Technology in the Arctic: Pro ises of Cooperation and Develop ent a id New Security Challenges Rasmus G. Bertelsen* *UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 Tro sø, Norway (Tel: +4791318623; e-mail: [email protected]). Abstract: Space science and technology (S&T) holds great potential for …Web
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Russia has had a presence on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard since 1920, but as military tensions rise, the cluster of islands is growing in significance for the mining sector. Florence Jones investigates. At the top of the world, Svalbard gives Russia access to large portions of Arctic waters, and China has started to make similar claims.Web
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The nation's Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has proposed opening up a 329,000-square-kilometer (127,000-square-mile) portion of the Norwegian Sea to deep-sea mining, an area nearly the size of ...Web
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The Arctic is one of the most remote and inhospitable regions on the planet, but that has not dissuaded mining companies from exploring potential projects in the region. The usual suspects – the US and Russia – are eager to establish mining footholds in the frozen north, and secure reliable supplies of critical minerals for their own ends.Web
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Arctic archipelago turns the page on its mining past. by Viken KANTARCI with Pierre-Henry Deshayes in Oslo. The project to turn the page on the area's mining past is the biggest natural ...Web
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Even in the case of new mining operations (for example, powerful gold deposits like Kittilä in Finland), companies can use nearby settlements and a largely ready-made transport infrastructure as a base. ... We are talking about new technologies for Arctic multi-story construction on permafrost, about geological research, and in general …Web
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1.2 Mining in the High Arctic: The Diavik diamond mine in Canada s Northwest Territories, approximately 300 kilometers northeast of Yellowknife and 220 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle 15 2.1 Location map of Greenland 42 2.2 Location map of Fennoscandia 45 2.3 Detail of a map from 1646 of the Nasafjäll silver mine in Swedish Lapland by ...Web
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This led analysts to predict that the company will cancel more than half of its $1 billion 2011 Greenland Programme. Sanjeev Bahl, an analyst at Numis Securities, wrote to investors about Cairn's exploration activities, concluding that Cairn will take a $630m write off on its work in the area. Greenland's goals for freedom now rest on the ...Web
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Russian civil nuclear shipping and floating nuclear power plant company Atomflot, part of the State-owned Rosatom nuclear group, has signed a preliminary …Web
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UArctic is a collaboration between academic institutions and other organizations with an interest in northern regions. The report demonstrates a high degree of international cooperation and ...Web
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Melting ice will change the economics of extracting resources from the Arctic. The Goliat oil rig, owned by Vår Energi and Equinor, operating in the Norway-owned section of the Barents Sea. Image ...Web
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Incentives for sustainable technologies; Oil and gas not used; New clean technologies boom; Corporate Social Responsibility; Economic growth does not increase environmental footprint. ... The 500-kilometer-long railroad from Luleå on the Gulf of Bothnia via the inland Arctic mining town Kiruna to Narvik on the Atlantic coast is a case in point ...Web
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Extractivism: A Framing Western Concept . Extraction of mineral resources has been a preoccupation of Arctic states for centuries. Antecedents of modern extractive development stretch back to the early modern period (especially in Scandinavia), and Indigenous metals technology and trade predate colonial forms by thousands of years …Web
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Abstract. A comparative perspective is applied in analyzing the large-scale utilization of Arctic natural resources driven by economies and agents outside the …Web
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Norway said in June it wanted to open parts of the Norwegian continental shelf for commercial deep sea mining in line with the country's strategy to seek new …Web
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The demand for raw materials is expected to increase by 500% between now and 2050, according to the World Bank, due to the energy transition that the world is going through. There was a watershed ...Web
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R&D costs in the development of new mining technologies, including mining hard-to-recover reserves; growth + + + Number of technologies reducing the impact on the Arctic ecosystem that are …Web
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The Mountain Pass mine, which resumed operations in 2012 after years of dormancy, today supplies around 15 percent of the world's production of rare earths, a group of 17 minerals used to make ...Web
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Greenpeace says move 'a new low' for Norway. OSLO, June 20 (Reuters) - The Norwegian government on Tuesday proposed opening its waters to deep-sea mining despite opposition from green campaigners ...Web
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In 1965 another large deposit was discovered nearby at Arctic, increasing mining interest in the area. Bornite sits on NANA Regional Corporation land, while Arctic, around 15 miles northeast from ...Web
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Mining in Arctic North America dates to the ... Korea, Japan, and some EU member states claim they can contribute with technology, logistics, transport, and industrial wherewithal as resources in the region ... This goes hand in hand with a less universal appreciation of new mining projects across not just Indigenous but also other residential ...Web
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The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) mandates that states govern deep-sea mining on seabed within their national jurisdiction. But roughly 60 percent of the ocean bottom is located beyond the jurisdiction of individual states. In these waters, deep-sea prospecting (the search for minerals and metals), exploration (assessments of ...Web
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A joint study by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), University of Lapland and Geological Survey of Finland called GovAda, which gathers scientific, peer-reviewed publications on the...Web
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The SMRs will provide power for both the Baimskaya project and for a new port to be built at Cape Nagloynyn. Between them, the project and the port will require more than 300 MWe of power. The ...Web
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The Alaska Miners Association indicates that there is interest in expanding operations of the Red Dog Mine in the U.S. Arctic over the next 20–30 years. Gold mining continues in Alaska, along with extraction of lead and zinc deposits from the Red Dog Mine, which contains two-thirds of U.S. zinc resources. Coal mining also occurs in several ...Web
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1. Introduction. The Arctic region is rapidly warming and experiencing vast sea ice and permafrost loss (Landrum and Holland, 2020).The region experienced its warmest summer on record in 2020, with the second-lowest sea ice cover, almost reaching the lowest 2012 levels (NASA, 2020a, NASA, 2020b).The sea ice loss contributes to expanding …Web
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