May 28, 2012

Australian mining community outraged by government’s decision to grant first ever right to hire foreign workers

Australia’s decision to grant first ever right to hire foreign workers at the Roy Hill project in the Pilbara on Friday has sparked heated critics by local unions and the…

May 27, 2012

Big miners playing game of chicken as marginal producers sink below break-even

Smaller miners are waiting for production cutbacks by the market leaders to prop up prices the way Saudi-Arabia comes to the rescue of oil producing nations whenever the crude price…

May 27, 2012

Glenstrata takes shape this week

The prospectus giving details of the creation of a $90 billion mining and commodities trading behemoth will find its way to the inboxes of shareholders this week.

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

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

Foreign workers to relieve labour shortage in Australia’s mining industry

Australia’s government announced Friday it will allow a new mine to hire about 1,700 foreign workers to alleviate a labour shortage threatening the resources boom.

May 24, 2012

Rail strike threatens Canadian coal, potash

A strike by CP Rail is hampering the movement of goods across Canada including mined commodities coal and potash.