October 12, 2012 15% of Queensland’s mining jobs to disappear in two years Analysts say more coal jobs will be axed in the Australian tropical state of Queensland as the beleaguered resources sector continues to weather a barrage of adverse factors.
October 11, 2012 South African gold miners reject wage offer Striking gold miners have rejected the industry's latest wage offer, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday, confirming mining companies’ fears of labour unrest lasting longer than expected.
October 11, 2012 Liberty Coal Energy Corp. announces completion of financing Liberty Coal announces equity placement of $9,196,500.00
October 11, 2012 Padang Resources Limited (ASX:PXR) completes extensive coal sampling at the Paser Project, East Kalimantan Extensive sampling completed across 43 ha location
October 10, 2012 Western Australia a step closer to green-lighting uranium mine The Western Australian government has issued a key approval for Toro Energy's Wiluna uranium project, bringing the proposed mine a large margin nearer to completion.
October 10, 2012 Up to 2,000 Chinese miners on their way to British Columbia to fill jobs Canadians can’t do safely The full time workers follow $1.4 billion in Chinese funding for two coal projects in the northeast of the province because Canadians "just don't have the experience" to operate underground…
October 10, 2012 Study finds little environmental impact from oil sands In 2010, a single oil-sands operation run by Suncor Energy released into the atmosphere 28,940 tonnes of volatile organic compounds, 22,210 tonnes of sulphur dioxide and 14,011 tonnes of particulate…
October 10, 2012 Xstrata begins coal job cuts in Australia Xstrata Coal (LON:XTA) began to reduce its workforce across its Australian coal operations by firing its first 40 permanent employees out of the 600 announced cuts.
October 10, 2012 December gold settles 1765.1, up $0.10 December Gold traded both sides of a tight choppy range on Wednesday, to settle one tic above the unchanged level Wednesday.
October 10, 2012 Stronger yuan will cheapen commodities for China: Leeb Renowned investment guru Stephen Leeb says China is pushing for a stronger yuan in order to cut the cost of its commodities purchases.
Indonesia identifies eight blocks with large rare earth reserve potential The blocks will be mined by the new state-owned miner Perminas. February 10, 2026 | 09:51 am
