May 2, 2012 US metal and industrial metal mine salaries for 2011 There is no such thing as an average miner. There is no such thing as an average salary. Yet we can get some idea of how well mining people are…
May 1, 2012 2011 wages for US metal and industrial mineral mines There are conventionally 2,080 work hours in a year. Thus somebody earning a wage of $20 an hour gets the equivalent of a salary of about $42,000. Considering the mine…
May 1, 2012 Arch Coal’s Q1 plummets from $55.6 million a year ago to just $1.2 million Blaming severe weakness in U.S. thermal coal markets, Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE: ACI) today reported first quarter 2012 net income of $1.2 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, compared with…
May 1, 2012 Cameco gains 5% after strong quarter Sales volumes were up 33% at Cameco, the world's largest uranium miner in Q1. Revenue increased 22% to $563 million and gross profit showed a gain of 31% to $178…
May 1, 2012 Xstrata copper production down, but Q1 financial performance solid Anglo-Swiss Xstrata Plc. (LON:XTA) reported today mixed production results for its first quarter, with copper production declining 18%, but said operating and financial performance remains strong.
May 1, 2012 Canadian Oil Sands divvies up 17% more as $23 syncrude discount evaporates From a 7-year low against US benchmark crude only six weeks ago, syncrude on Monday moved into premium territory.
April 30, 2012 Sierra Club continues Kemper coal-plant legal battle Sierra Club officials in Mississippi are continuing a legal fight to stop construction of a $2.88 billion coal-gasification power plant by a Southern Co utility in Kemper County, Mississippi.
April 30, 2012 India’s new uranium mine may host one of world’s largest reserves In what is considered a major milestone in the Indian nuclear program, the Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) commissioned last week a new uranium mine, which may host one…
April 30, 2012 Greenpeace puns iCoal, but the group may have its numbers wrong Greenpeace recently published a new ad on YouTube that takes a swipe at Apple's reliance on coal to power its cloud computing services, however the environmental organization may have goofed…
Platinum deficits to persist as EV rollout slows, Valterra says A slower-than-expected adoption of EVs in some markets has helped boost sentiment around the metals. February 10, 2026 | 10:30 am
