{"id":151098,"date":"2026-05-09T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151098"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:00:06","slug":"gold-vs-water-argentina-opens-glaciers-to-mining-but-at-what-cost-to-world-food-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151098","title":{"rendered":"Gold vs water: Argentina opens glaciers to mining but at what cost to world food supplies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeneath the shining white glaciers of the Andean mountains lie valuable deposits of gold, copper and molybdenum which, until recently, were off-limits to the mining companies that have set their eyes on these untapped minerals.<br \/>\nThat could be about to change, after legislators in Argentina agreed to amend the Glacier Law that has prohibited all mining and exploration activities in the country\u2019s glacier regions since 2010.<br \/>\nThe legislation defined the country\u2019s 16,000 glaciers \u2013 covering an area of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3352693\/gold-vs-water-argentina-opens-glaciers-mining-what-cost-world-food-supplies?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeneath the shining white glaciers of the Andean mountains lie valuable deposits of gold, copper and molybdenum which, until recently, were off-limits to the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151098"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}