Companies Are Dressing Up as Gold Miners
Mineweb examines companies that are doing all they can to appear as gold miners but actually make their money from producing other […]
Cecilia Jamasmie , Editor-in-Chief
Posts by Cecilia Jamasmie:
Soros and Paulson Like Gold and You Should Like Gold Too
Mineweb looks at Soros and Paulson’s interest in gold.
The Strong Hand Theory
I’ll start off with an analogy. Let’s say you just bought a business, a small restaurant. You open for business on Monday […]
The Mine of the Future Might be a Thing of the Past
Automated operations are winning over today’s mining industry. Whether it is autonomous trucks, tele-operated drills and blasts or automated logistics applications, mines […]
Mining the Moon is Closer than Ever
For some it might sound like a futuristic tale, but for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Agency (NASA), the goal of […]
The Faces Behind the Wheel
They may look like easy-to-drive toy trucks when at the bottom of the mine, but the reality is quite the opposite. Mining […]
Tantalum: A Bloody Future?
First there were “blood diamonds,” the gems that fuelled conflict and human rights abuses in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Then there was […]
Potash Rush Fires Up
That a fertilizer may become the next gold may seem hard to believe. However, when Canadian company Potash Corp, a fertilizer producer […]
Nunavut: The Epicentre of a New Diamond Exploration Boom in Canada
Finding diamonds in Canada was, for many years, little more than a prospector’s hope. But with the discovery of diamonds in Nunavut […]
Chile, Codelco and the Copper Slump
I n early January 2009, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced a $4 billion plan to help Chile fight the global economic crisis […]
Collahuasi permit setback jolts Chile copper sector
Anglo American and Glencore face renewed delays as Chile reopens review of a major desalination project at the copper mine.