Mining with the FARC
Amazon Indians depend on the FARC to get their tantalum and tungsten to market.
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Enough already, look to buy Newmont, Barrick, Iamgold and Freeport: Marc Faber
"The S&P 500 is up only 10% since October 2007 while gold is still up 75% over the same period of time."
Newcrest reports $5.3bn loss, its largest ever
"It has been a very, very challenging year for the gold sector."
INFOGRAPHIC: The world’s highest grade uranium district
The Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan is home to 15.5% of annual global uranium production.
INFOGRAPHIC: Causes and costs of downtimes for surface miners
47% of downtime at mining operations is caused by hydraulic power and belt drive failures.
Charting a path towards sustainable mining
'Mapping the Future - Advances in Mining Engineering.'
NASA gets serious about asteroid mining in new mission
"The mission will develop important technologies for asteroid exploration that will benefit anyone interested in exploring or mining asteroids, whether it's NASA or a private company."
The year’s best meteor shower is coming this weekend
The point from which the meteors appear lies in the Perseus constellation.
Now is the time to short sell gold miner volatility: Michael Purves
GDX volatility is at multi-year highs.
Rio Tinto half year profit plummets 71% on weak commodity prices
Rio doesn't expect Chinese growth to recover in the second half of the year.
RANKED: World’s top 20 gold projects
The combined ounces in the ground for the top 20 projects is north of 900 million and at today's prices worth a mouth-watering $3.7 trillion.
