A radioactive capsule that went missing last month has reportedly been located. The capsule was in use at Rio Tinto’s Gudai-Darri mine in Western Australia. It has a little amount of caesium-137, which can lead to burns, skin damage, and radiation sickness. A tiny radioactive capsule that went missing last month has reportedly been located, … Read more
An emergency search is underway along the 1,400km (870 mile) route for the device. The capsule contains a trace amount of radioactive Caesium-137. It could poison anyone who comes into contact with it. Rio Tinto has apologized for the loss of a tiny radioactive capsule that went missing while being transported across Western Australia. … Read more
Indigenous Australian activists fighting to save 40,000-year-old rock art. Murujuga rock art is sacred to Indigenous custodians. Scarborough gas project would see 13 wells drilled off coast of Western Australia. Two Indigenous Australian activists are fighting to save 40,000-year-old sacred rock art in Western Australia from pollution and plans for a major gas project. Destruction … Read more
The global mining company, Rio Tinto, plans to invest $87 million to increase aluminum production in North America, with 16 new smelting cells at its AP60 smelter, in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Arab News quoted the company, as saying, in a statement. This happens amid the global trend to reduce climate change, as demand from electric … Read more
