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North Korea’s nuclear threat takes an underwater turn

Asiatimes 27 Mar 2023
North Korea is flexing its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities again with a new nuclear-armed underwater drone and nuclear-capable subsonic cruise missiles ... The latter may aim to fight a guerilla war at sea involving fast attack craft, mini-submarines, naval mines, shore-based anti-ship missiles and possibly underwater suicide drones.
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An ancient mound of shells has been mined in the San Francisco Bay for 100 ...

Hastings Tribune 22 Mar 2023
But this particular barge is the last sign of one of California’s oldest mining industries, which trades in what might be the Bay Area’s most unusual non-renewable natural resource ... Over the millennia, as generations of oysters lived and died, their shells accumulated into an enormous, underwater shell mountain.
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Amesbury Elementary students 'space out'

Newburyport Daily News 22 Mar 2023
AMESBURY — Few things grab children’s imagination like the vast mysteries of space ... Marines for five years ... So I ended up going to school for commercial diving, which is construction underwater and welding. and then I met up with an old Marine friend of mine that had a job in SpaceX and my military career as an aircraft mechanic is how I got my job.”.
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An ancient mound of shells has been mined in the bay for 100 years — ...

The Mercury News 21 Mar 2023
But this particular barge is the last sign of one of California’s oldest mining industries, which trades in what might be the Bay Area’s most unusual non-renewable natural resource ... Over the millennia, as generations of oysters lived and died, their shells accumulated into an enormous, underwater shell mountain.
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US firm says Mexican authorities illegally seized its port terminal

Reuters 21 Mar 2023
... mining activities plays out ... The Alabama-based firm has been unable to quarry and ship construction materials since the Mexican government shut down its operations last May over concerns of harmful impacts of underwater limestone mining on the local environment and water table.
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Alabama-based construction firm rages at Mexico's government after soldiers raided their Playa Del Carmen base ...

The Daily Mail 21 Mar 2023
Cemex then unloaded a shipment of cement from a ship in the port ... Vulcan's CEO, J ... Vulcan Chairman and CEO J ... The firm has been unable to quarry and ship construction materials since the Mexican government shut down its operations last May over concerns of harmful impacts of underwater limestone mining on the local environment and water table ... .
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Tin mining is big business in Indonesia. Here's why miners risk their lives for $13 ...

Business Insider 20 Mar 2023
Makeshift pontoons gather in the Indonesia Sea to form an illegal tin mine. Ibnu Hadi Rachmat Miners in Indonesia risk their lives every day by illegally diving up to 65 feet underwater with minimal equipment ... The tin they mine gets used in common products like phones, makeup, and food cans ... The compressor shut off once while Joko was underwater.
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Australian company to buy Arctic Canadian Diamond Company's assets

North Shore News 14 Mar 2023
YELLOWKNIFE — An Australian company is set to buy all of Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Ltd.'s assets, including the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories ... Like Arctic, it said it intends to explore options to extend the mine's life, including underwater remote mining and the development of the Jay deposit or Fox underground.
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Australian Burgundy buys Canada’s largest diamond operation, Arctic Canadian 

Mining Dot Com 14 Mar 2023
... will make it a vertically integrated operator from mining to selling finished stones ... Arctic Canadian had outlined a plan to expand production at its holdings about 300 km northeast of Yellowknife using a novel underwater mining system on kimberlites at the bottoms of lakes.
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The Time Ranger | Chamber Turns 110 & The Dam Bursts

The Signal 11 Mar 2023
Welcome Santa Clarita old-timers and newcomers, friends and neighbors ... Take your dusters and make sure they’re leakproof ... WAY, WAY BACK WHEN ... Actually, gold was being mined here as early as the 1790s ... THE CHAMBER ... UNDERWATER GOLD MINES — County surveyors were thick along Bouquet Canyon Road ... It used to be a big gold mine before they filled it with water.
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US looks to boost Indo-Pacific budget to counter China

Taipei Times 10 Mar 2023
The command wants to boost its arsenal for a potential China fight with underwater mines nicknamed Hammerhead and Quick Strike, and ground-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles that could be fired against Chinese ships.
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US defense budget boost eyes China competition in Indo-Pacific  

Hong Kong Standard 10 Mar 2023
The command wants to boost its arsenal for a potential China fight with underwater mines nicknamed Hammerhead and Quick Strike and ground-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles that could be fired by the Army and Marines against Chinese ships. .
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Did US raise a false flag on Nordstream blasts?

Asiatimes 09 Mar 2023
As cover, Hersh writes, the Americans had Sixth Fleet planners add to the annual naval maneuvers already scheduled for that time and place a research and development exercise involving “NATO teams of divers planting mines, with competing teams using the latest underwater technology to find and destroy them ... They have their jobs and I have mine.
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Defence technology: Role in military intelligence

Financial Express 09 Mar 2023
India’s ASAT system is a ground-based missile that can destroy satellites in low-earth orbit ... OROP ... Crewless Underwater Vehicles (UUVs).UUVs are autonomous or remotely operated underwater exploration and surveillance vehicles. In the Ukraine conflict, UUVs are used to detect and neutralize underwater mines, as well as for surveillance purposes ... .
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America and China are preparing for a war over Taiwan

Economist 09 Mar 2023
Taiwanese forces would block ports and beaches with sea mines, submerged ships and other obstacles ... Some PLA texts suggest that Taiwan has underwater pipelines off its beaches that could release flammable liquid ... Though its boats are outnumbered by China’s, America retains the edge in underwater warfare.

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