May 31, 2012 Outer Harbour 1, Olympic Dam-Jansen 0: BHP gets final approval for $20 billion iron ore expansion There are "growing signs" that Outer Harbour will take precedence over BHP's massive Olympic Dam project and the greenfield Jansen potash venture in Canada.
May 31, 2012 Why isn’t this copper miner smiling? He’s getting a $45 million bonus just for staying on In all $265 million will be doled out to senior management at Xstrata to stop them from jumping ship after a merger with Glencore. The two companies are also paying…
May 31, 2012 EastCoal Inc. closes C$17,010,000 private placement The Company is focused on the Donbass coal basin of Ukraine which has large coal reserves and excellent prospects.
May 31, 2012 Joy Global sinks to year-low, forecasts further US and worldwide slowdown “Our second quarter reflects both excellence in our execution and concerns over slowing in our markets”
May 31, 2012 Glenstrata ready to become the largest mining industry merger in recent history The prospectus giving details of the creation of a $90 billion mining and commodities trading behemoth will finally find its way to the inboxes of shareholders today.
May 31, 2012 What if the gold megabulls are right? The economic conditions that would precipitate the massive jump in the gold price that many of the megabulls are predicting could be horrendous, but perhaps the politicians can carry on…
May 31, 2012 Owners of Big Sandy throw in the towel and withdraw $1bn retrofit plans New York Times reports that Big Sandy, an eastern Kentucky coal-burning plant, will not be retrofitted so it can meet environmental regulations.
May 31, 2012 Shell set to expand oil sands operations CEO Peter Voser says they want to expand their Athabasca operations by a third within the decade.
May 30, 2012 Aussie mining jobs aplenty, if you have the right tickets ABC News examines the rumour that big money can be made in mining in Australia with nary more than a high-school diploma.
May 30, 2012 Olympic Dam decision pushed to the wire If the board of the world's largest miner does not make a decision on the giant copper-gold-uranium-silver project in South Australia's outback by 8 December then it would lose all…
GRAPHIC-Gold and silver soar in year-end rally Investors have not treated the festive break as an occasion to take profits. December 22, 2025 | 12:08 pm
