April 4, 2012 Black lung payouts expanded under little known Obamacare section While speculation about the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on the Affordable Care Act has been getting all the attention, there is a little known provision in the law that reinstates…
April 3, 2012 Australian miners face explosions, acid sprays, gassings Acid sprays, gassings, venomous snakes, and lightning strikes are just some of the risks faced by Queensland miners atop the threat of mine collapse and violent explosions.
April 3, 2012 Firestone Energy rejects offer for Waterberg coal mine stake Firestone Energy Limited (ASX/JSE:FSE) rejected today an offer from Tata Power to invest in a joint venture with Sekoko Resources to develop a coal mine in the Waterberg area of…
April 3, 2012 C$25 billion to improve Canada’s Asian trading opportunities Christy Clark, the Premier of Canada’s British Columbia unveiled details of a C$25 billion public and private sector plan to expand trade with Asia, by improving the province's transportation system.
April 3, 2012 Miners have fun on April Fools There were news reports on April 1 about a Charlize Theron sex tape and WestJet kid-free flights that all turned out—unfortunately—not to be true.
April 3, 2012 King coal faces a usurper and an accomplice While the U.S. gets most of its electricity from coal, the EPA has enacted restrictions that are starting to sunset industry.
April 2, 2012 Canada’s oil sands to more than double its workforce over the next decade: Report The Canadian oil sands will need to more than double its workforce over the next decade, as expansion projects create new positions and existing workers retire, says the Petroleum Human…
April 2, 2012 Prophecy up 4.8% after Southgobi deal puts Mongolian coal back in focus Prophecy has more than 1.4 billion tonnes of surface minable coal resources at its flagship Chandgana project and is already producing at Ulaan Ovoo in Mongolia.
April 2, 2012 ‘Sense of duty’ prevented another Fukushima nuclear disaster The Mainichi Daily News profiles Yanosuke Hirai, a technocrat in Japan, whose doggedness and sense of personal duty, compelled him to build a breakwater high enough to deflect the March…
April 2, 2012 Gold One buys First Uranium’s Elzuwini Mining Company for US$70M First Uranium (TSX:FIU) announced Monday it has sold its South African-based Elzuwini Mining Co. to Gold One International for US$70 million, transaction that should be completed by June 29.
ERG signs long-term gallium supply deal with Mitsubishi Kazakhstan, which currently produces no gallium, is set to become the world's second-largest producer. December 20, 2025 | 08:34 am
