Tag: Mining
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Serbia Government Greenlights Disputed Lithium Mining Project
The Serbian government on Tuesday gave permission to restart operations at a disputed Rio Tinto lithium mining project, days after a court ruling overturned measures to halt the project. “The government… takes measures to restore the legal order to the state that existed before the adoption of the regulation that was declared unconstitutional,” read a …
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US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining
The fast-growing cryptocurrency industry is a major consumer of electricity, but no one—not even the U.S. government—knows exactly how much energy goes into the armada of computers used to ‘mine’ Bitcoin and other digital assets. The U.S. Energy Information Agency estimates that cryptocurrency mining uses between 0.6 percent and 2.3 percent of all electricity per …