Scientists find evidence of America’s first mines with skeletons from 13,000 years ago underwater 

Archaeologists in Mexico have found some of the oldest mines in the Americas and 13,000-year-old human remains, after exploring an underwater area in the Yucatan peninsula. In a paper published in the journal Science Advances on Friday, the scientists told of finding ocher mines in underwater caves.   They had been intrigued by the 2007 discovery … Read more

MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Our tip Anglo Pacific mines a stream of dividends

MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Our tip Anglo Pacific mines a stream of dividends By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 18 April 2020 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 18 April 2020 Anglo Pacific is a one-off in this country. It is the only listed business focused on mining royalties – which means the … Read more

Air pollution from 12th century British lead mines has been detected in the Swiss Alps 

Air pollution from 12th century British lead mines ‘was as bad as the industrial revolution’ and has been detected in glacial ice from the Swiss–Italian Alps.  Researchers used high-precision laser technology to analyse the contents of an 800-year-old section of ice bored out of the Colle Gnifetti glacier in 2013. They found that the levels of … Read more

Six dolphins taken to a secret location where they will be trained to search for undersea mines

A group of dolphins were transported by the U.S. Air Force aboard a C-17 Globemaster transport plane in order for them to take part in a top secret mission organized by the Navy. The dolphins were being taken to an unknown location where the Navy were going to train them how to seek undersea mines … Read more