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JPMorgan says the Bitcoin price dip in April strained mining profitability. MARA and CleanSpark outperformed peers despite broader mining weakness. China’s new tariffs just reignited the same ...

The Cross River State Government’s Anti-Illegal Mining Taskforce, in collaboration with Abi local government area vigilante group have intercepted over 200 suspected illegal miners on Sunday in ...

Now, two unions representing miners have sued the White House over its recent threat to their welfare. In These Times writes that the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and the AFL-CIO’s ...

(Bloomberg) -- The world’s biggest iron ore miners face a difficult start to the year, after extreme weather impacted production and as their biggest customer China braces for a trade war.

Mining is the process of adding and validating transaction records on the Bitcoin public blockchain ledger while securing uptime for the network. This is how the network persists without relying ...

Somerset County coal miners began a 16-month strike on April 14, 1922, for better working conditions and union recognition. Miners and their families faced evictions, harsh living conditions and ...

The restrictions from China were seen as the latest demonstration of the country’s ability to weaponize its dominance over the mining and processing of critical minerals after it put outright ...

Bitcoin mining involves solving complex mathematical puzzles, validating transactions and securing the network. Miners compete to find the correct hash, adding new blocks to the blockchain and ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Miners and the Albanese government believe Australian resources projects will get more favourable access to the US market after ...

Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential deep-sea mining in international waters. If the U.S. were to move forward with plans to support mining in the ...

A total of 69 illegal miners, including undocumented foreign nationals, have recently been arrested in Limpopo as the South African Police Service (Saps) continues to clamp down on unlawful ...