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Australian Floods Shaking Up Global Coal Investments

OfficialWire reports: The coal terminal at Dalrymple Bay, the largest Australia’s Queensland state, is running at 70 percent of capacity despite fears flooding […]

MINING.COM Editor | January 10, 2011 | 4:02 pm

Coal shortfall from Queensland floods fuels Asian inflation

The Australian reports: Flooding in Australia’s coal heartland has resulted in a price surge across Asia that could flow on to coal-dependent […]

MINING.COM Editor | January 10, 2011 | 3:57 pm

Floods threaten Australia’s third biggest city

Reuters reports: Residents in Australia’s third largest city, Brisbane, sandbagged their homes against rising waters Monday as torrential rain worsened floods that […]

MINING.COM Editor | January 10, 2011 | 3:52 pm

Precious but precarious: High gold prices driving interest in Celtic fringe

Old gold-mining shafts are being reopened around the world, as economic uncertainty and scepticism about other assets has sent the gold price […]

MINING.COM Editor | January 7, 2011 | 3:50 pm

David Coffin: Buy these 8 Junior Miners on Dips

Michael Campbell: David could we just start and give the broad brush first of all where you see sort of that precious […]

MINING.COM Editor | December 20, 2010 | 10:24 am

Australian PM Tours Bucyrus

With only days until the Australian election, Prime Minister Julia Gillard toured a Bucyrus workshop in northern Queensland, reported the AP.

MINING.COM Editor | August 17, 2010 | 4:35 pm

Mining rights application accepted for planned Waterberg coal mine

Australian mining company Firestone Energy says the application by Sekoko Coal, its black economic-empowerment partner, for coal-mining rights on the Waterberg Joint […]

MINING.COM Editor | August 2, 2010 | 11:28 am

Outotec technology for First Quantum nickel, copper, cobalt and gold projects

Outotec has agreed with the First Quantum Minerals Limited Projects Office based in Perth, Australia, for the delivery of flotation, thickening and […]

MINING.COM Editor | May 12, 2010 | 5:16 pm