May 27, 2012 Granted first ever right to hire foreign workers Friday. Saturday shuns 14,000 locals queuing at jobs expo Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting which is hiring 1,700 foreign workers for the Roy Hill iron mine were absent from the Australian mining association job fair in Perth and so were…
May 26, 2012 UK greens warn of a return to era of ‘dirty coal’ Coal-fired power stations trialling 'carbon capture' technology could be exempt from regulations.
May 26, 2012 Military drones for mines and tailings I can hardly wait to get my first project involving the use of a drone to monitor the performance of a mine tailings facility. These days some are so big…
May 26, 2012 Smelly anti-coal-mining protests Protesters of a mining conference in downtown Vancouver were throwing more than just rocks.
May 26, 2012 Harper is right: Foreign radicals are after the oil sands “There is political manipulation. There is influence peddling. There are millions of dollars crossing borders masquerading as charitable donations.”
May 26, 2012 Judge lifts restraining order to allow mining to resume at W.Va. surface mine A federal judge has lifted a temporary restraining order to allow continued mining operations at the Nellis surface mine in Boone County, W.Va., which is owned by Penn Virginia Resource…
May 25, 2012 Dip buyers send gold higher Gold traders did some value hunting ahead of the long weekend, sending the yellow metal to a two-day winning streak ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.
May 25, 2012 Forsys Metals plans bigger Namibia uranium mine Canada's Forsys Metals Corp says it may be able to boost its uranium reserves in Namibia by 30 percent as it consolidates its two projects in the southern African nation…
May 25, 2012 EU sideswipes oilsands with new fuel directive A new fuel-quality directive, passed yesterday by the European Union, will create a separate label for Canadian oil produced from oilsands.
May 25, 2012 The catalysts for the next gold rally In 2012, gold has traded well beneath the all-time high of $1924 recorded in September 2011. As we have previously cautioned, a fall back to $1520- or even lower is…
CHARTS: New study shows global mining is now a brownfield industry The rise of brownfield mining and the fall in grassroots exploration is reshaping global mineral supply with the early 2020s marked as turning point. January 22, 2026 | 01:08 pm
