May 27, 2012 The three trends which rule the precious metals market It is bad enough watching the talking-heads of the mainstream media undermine the precious metals sector with their insipid and invariably flawed analysis.
May 27, 2012 Granted first ever right to hire foreign workers Friday. Saturday shuns 14,000 locals queuing at jobs expo Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting which is hiring 1,700 foreign workers for the Roy Hill iron mine were absent from the Australian mining association job fair in Perth and so were…
May 27, 2012 Bodies of 10 illegal diamond miners recovered in South Africa The bodies of 10 illegal miners were pulled from a collapsed tunnel at a disused diamond mine in South Africa's Northern Cape province De Beers announced late on Saturday.
May 27, 2012 Collahuasi copper mine resumes after worker death The world's No. 3 copper mine, Chile's Collahuasi, is gradually resuming mining operations following the accidental death of a worker late Saturday, spokeswoman Bernardita Fernandez told Reuters on Sunday.
May 27, 2012 Beijing iron exchange handled only 8 transactions in its first 3 weeks It has been a slow start for China’s first physical iron ore trading platform which was launched with the idea that it would give China greater influence on the price…
May 27, 2012 Bloomberg: Gold boom spreading mercury as 15 million miners exposed Bloomberg has a devastating in-depth report on the impact of gold mining in a small town in Colombia called Segovia where "almost 100 shops refine the gold that prospectors bring…
May 27, 2012 Rio Tinto chief dismisses China ‘doom’ Rio iron ore chief Sam Walsh said the miner expected China to grow eight percent this year and demand for minerals to hold up, dismissing downbeat talk about the Asian…
May 26, 2012 UK greens warn of a return to era of ‘dirty coal’ Coal-fired power stations trialling 'carbon capture' technology could be exempt from regulations.
May 26, 2012 Military drones for mines and tailings I can hardly wait to get my first project involving the use of a drone to monitor the performance of a mine tailings facility. These days some are so big…
May 26, 2012 Smelly anti-coal-mining protests Protesters of a mining conference in downtown Vancouver were throwing more than just rocks.
Ontario, Ottawa sign deal to speed up major projects The deal will bring a “one project, one review” approach to major infrastructure initiatives in Canada’s most populous province. December 18, 2025 | 10:22 am
