August 6, 2011 Mining companies buying up prime farmland across Queensland, despite public opposition Mining and energy firms have swooped to buy more than 390,000ha across Queensland Australia despite almost unanimous opposition to the sell-off of prime farming land. In the Surat Basin west…
August 6, 2011 Research and Markets: Production and Investment Forecasts in the Namibian Mining Industry: Uranium Set to Overtake Diamonds as Namibia’s Largest Foreign Currency Earner Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5cb789/production_and_inv) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Production and Investment Forecasts in the Namibian Mining Industry" to their offering. This research
August 5, 2011 One-two hit for oil sands producers Canadian Natural Resources announced this week it is poised to restart its Horizon plant seven months after it went up in flames and aims to spend over $2 billion to…
August 5, 2011 Hillary Clinton: Keystone XL safety will be above the law The Hill's E2-Wire reports Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the proposed pipeline to bring Canadian oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries, if approved, will operate under tougher…
August 5, 2011 QMASTOR’s PortVu Software contracted by Canada’s largest coal terminal QMASTOR has been awarded a major contract with Canada's largest export coal terminal. In a major coup for the company, Westshore Terminals (Westshore) has selected QMASTOR to implement QMASTOR‟s Port…
August 5, 2011 Navajo Nation and Peabody Energy settle $600 million lawsuit after 12 years The Navajo Nation's allegations that a coal mining company conspired with others to cheat the tribe out of as much as $600 million in royalties was settled in federal court…
August 5, 2011 Major stock buying op It’s sure been an exceptionally-ugly week in the US stock markets! But these scary conditions are a contrarian’s dream, an ideal time to snatch up bargains.
August 5, 2011 The crime against silver In 1873, the Fourth Coinage Act was enacted by the US Congress. Western silver miners labeled this measure the "Crime of '73" because it stopped the printing of US silver…
August 5, 2011 Junior gold stocks suffer in market meltdown – is this 2008 over again? Comments yesterday from the president of the ECB on the spreading Eurozone debt crisis precipitated a general global stock market crash with the mining sector and metals amongst the major…
August 5, 2011 US new nuclear build before 2012 Southern Company is expecting to begin full construction of two reactors at the end of this year, having been given a licensing schedule by the nuclear safety regulators.
Landslide in Indonesia’s Morowali nickel hub kills one, halts operations The landslide on Wednesday occurred in a tailings area run by an IMIP tenant called PT QMB, and was suspected to have been caused by soft soils. February 19, 2026 | 07:15 am
