May 20, 2016

No waste, no fuss for the mining industry

Mining companies are required, by law, to have abatement plans in place to deal with all kinds of waste.

May 20, 2016

Aussie mines too costly to shut

Mine sales stumble on looming clean-ups

May 19, 2016

Caterpillar retail sales drop 12% in first three months of the year

Results mark the 41 straight month of retail sales declines.

May 19, 2016

South African miners to pay 67% of acid drainage clean-up costs

The government will pay for two-thirds of the cost by collecting money from mining companies through a new environmental levy.

May 18, 2016

Geoscience BC receives $5 million in new funding for mineral, water and energy earth science

Firm will launch its largest airborne magnetic survey this summer in west-central BC.

May 18, 2016

Australia’s miners ‘missing in action’ in Colombia

Australia’s resource houses are “missing in action” in Latin America’s third largest economic powerhouse – Colombia – and should move post haste to rapidly lift their engagement with the mineral…

May 18, 2016

South Africa chamber of mines says half of members in the red

Group represents the country's largest mining companies, including AngloGold Ashanti, Sibanye Gold and Impala Platinum Holdings.

May 16, 2016

Australian company plans coal mine in Poland

Australia's Prairie Mining has confirmed its intention to open a coal mine in southeast Poland by 2023, saying it was confident the $632 million (558 million euro) project would be…

May 16, 2016

Getting a heartbeat on British Columbia miners

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) has recently released their 48th annual British Columbia Mining Report.

May 16, 2016

Australia’s geoscientist employment slump enters its third year

Employment prospects for Australia’s professional geoscientists deteriorated even further in the opening quarter of 2016, driven down by mining’s negativity and dashing hopes for an improvement in the geoscientist employment…