mining

A construction site in Israel, May 2022. (Roman Mykhalchuk via iStock by Getty Images)

Forecast of short supply of building materials until 2040 further imperils housing

Energy Ministry warns domestic supply will fail to meet high demand for construction materials to build homes, roads, infrastructure, per current growth rates

March 13, 2023, 3:47 pm

Forecast of short supply of building materials until 2040 further imperils housing

Energy Ministry warns domestic supply will fail to meet high demand for construction materials to build homes, roads, infrastructure, per current growth rates

By Danielle Nagler

Smartphone waste. (MikroLogika, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

October 31, 2022, 4:00 pm

Israeli-made vending machine offers easy sale, trade and recycling of used phones

RE-Refurbished Smartphones Revolution provides a one-stop shop to reduce e-waste, production energy, natural resource depletion and mining-related damage

By Sue Surkes

A relative of a missing miner reacts while waiting in front of the state-owned TTK Amasra Muessese Mudurlugu mine in Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of Bartin, Turkey, Oct. 15, 2022 (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

October 15, 2022, 8:33 am

Death toll rises to 40 in Turkey coal mine blast; 1 miner still missing

11 injured and hospitalized, while 58 others managed to get out of the mine on their own or were rescued unharmed; Erdogan to visit scene of accident

By Mehmet Guzel and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

A danger of drowning sign on the way to the Dead Sea Works from where the sea has long since receded, January 20, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

June 22, 2022, 10:52 pm

Israel has a chance to slow the Dead Sea’s demise. Will big business get in the way?

With regional politics holding back release of any more water from Sea of Galilee, green groups hope that a revamped mining concession will protect the lake’s future

By Sue Surkes

Oil shale rock burns on its own once lit with a blow torch. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

May 31, 2021, 9:21 pm

Planning committee greenlights next stage of oil shale and plastic waste factory

Ignoring pleas from environmental groups to cancel plans, committee members approve Environment Ministry terms for an impact survey to include climate costs

By Sue Surkes

The Dead Sea Works viewed from an overlook. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

April 27, 2021, 2:57 am

Green body petitions court over right to info on Israel’s natural resources

With so little money paid into sovereign wealth fund, Adam Teva V’Din seeks to fix transparency rules for details on natural resources owned by public, exploited by private sector

By Sue Surkes

Rescuers recover bodies near a landslide area in a jade mining site in Hpakhant in Kachin state on July 2, 2020 (Zaw Moe Htet / AFP)

July 2, 2020, 3:07 pm

Landslide at Myanmar jade mine kills at least 123 people

Fire service puts death toll even higher, says workers were ‘smothered by a wave of mud’; 54 injured

By ZAW MOE HTET and PYAE SONE WIN

May 8, 2020, 4:18 pm

Overruling Environment Ministry, planners advance contentious oil shale project

Rotem Energy Mineral Partnership given go ahead to order environmental survey for plan to mine shale oil in southern Israel, and heat it with plastic waste to create oil, power

By Sue Surkes

One of Israel Chemicals' Rotem Amfert phosphate plants. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

December 11, 2019, 1:43 pm

State recommends police probe Negev phosphate plant over pollution

Rotem Amfert, already responsible for Ashalim ecological disaster in 2017, to be investigated for flow of chemical sludge into open pits in February

By Sue Surkes

Some of the studied tin ingots from the sea off the coast of Israel (approx. 1300-1200 BCE). (Credit: Ehud Galili)

September 16, 2019, 7:48 pm

Groundbreaking study: Ancient tin ingots found in Israel were mined in England

Enigma of origins of Bronze Age Levant’s tin supply solved through isotope and chemical composition analysis that shows 13th–12th century BCE tin bars likely came from Cornwall

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

An Israeli military delegation prepares to leave for Brazil to perform search-and-rescue operations there, after a dam burst, on January 27, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

January 27, 2019, 9:07 pm

IDF delegation takes off for Brazil to search for missing in dam collapse

130 soldiers, mostly reservists in search-and-rescue units, travel to southwest Brazil, bringing underwater gear to find those trapped in muddy morass left by mining accident

By Judah Ari Gross and AFP

An Israeli aid and rescue team heads to Brazil on January 27, 2019, to help with rescue efforts following the collapse of a dam in the southwest of the country, which killed at least 40 people and left at least 200 missing. (ZAKA)

January 27, 2019, 2:39 am

Israel sends rescue team, aid to Brazil following dam collapse

Netanyahu and Bolsanoro speak by phone to coordinate assistance; Israeli mission to help search for at least 200 people missing in wake of disaster

By ToI Staff and AP

November 7, 2017, 5:45 pm

Israeli diamond mogul named in Paradise Papers

Recently leaked documents on offshore holdings reveal Dan Gertler took loan from mining giant Glencore to secure rights in Congo

By Shoshanna Solomon

August 14, 2017, 5:04 pm

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Israel’s precious resources

Australian Professor William Griffin, a renowned expert on the earth’s crust, came to Israel last year and discovered that Israel has enough precious stones and diamonds to warrant commercial mining

George Soros speaks at the Festival of Economics in Trento, Italy in 2012. (Wikimedia Commons, Niccolò Caranti, CC BY-SA 3.0)

April 15, 2017, 5:48 pm

Billionaire vs. billionaire: Israel’s Steinmetz sues Soros

Beny Steinmetz’s mining company files a suit against the US-Jewish philanthropist, for trying to sabotage mineral interests in Guinea

By ToI Staff