About 1,000 asteroids, or about the size of Texas, are known to have been discovered in the asteroid belt, the asteroid field between Mars and Jupiter.Of those, 1,500 are near Earth, and another 50,000 are potentially hazardous asteroids.But how many asteroids have been detected?“That’s a tough question, and it’s not really a question that can […]
Minecarts have been flooding the roads of portia for years.Now, an aluminum ore mine is closing the gates and a portia worker is dying from the disease.Local television news showed footage of an elderly man dying of the disease inside an iron ore mine in portia.The man was wearing a protective mask and carrying a […]
It’s a question that has plagued mining companies for decades, but this week the British government has finally brought the issue of aluminium ore pricing back into focus.The government says it will increase the price of aluminium in the country’s economy, but the price has already been a hot topic on social media.“In the past […]
The Minecraft universe is vast, encompassing everything from the vast, beautiful lands of the far east to the massive oceans of the Pacific Northwest.That diversity and the many variations of the game are its most important selling points.And yet, for all its depth, Minecraft has never been a simple game.The original version was developed by […]
Al Jazeera America’s Al Jazeera World reports that Bauxite is the most widely mined mineral in the world, with production in the United States at just over 10 billion tonnes a year.In the United Arab Emirates, where Al Jazeera is based, the company Bauxites Al Ahmar has an estimated 1,400 tonnes of the mineral a […]
Raw aluminum ore from the Lidborough Basin in Queensland is being processed by a company called Goldfields.Photo: Supplied.The Queensland Government is investing $1.7 billion in a new aluminium mine and port in the Lido region of the north-west.The project, dubbed Goldfields, is being built to produce a range of aluminium products.Goldfields is the largest and […]
If you want to build your own mining facility in the U.K., you’ll need a lot of aluminum ore.You’ll also need to be able to make it all work.That’s because the U,S.and Canada have a lot in common, according to a new report.Aluminium ore is found in just about every continent except Antarctica.It is also […]
