May 6, 2012 Budget ‘must reveal’ mining tax details CLIME Asset Management founder John Abernethy has called on companies hit by the government's controversial mining tax to immediately disclose the financial impact on their business or face reprimands from…
May 5, 2012 Goliath vs David and Goliath battle brewing over world-first ‘stainless steel’ deposit Vancouver's First Point Minerals served notice of arbitration on Cliffs on Saturday because the iron and coal giant refuses to hand over crucial information about the tiny explorer's Decar project,…
May 5, 2012 Cliffs Refuses to Provide First Point with Key Data on Decar Project First Point Minerals Corp. announces that it has served notice of arbitration on Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Canada Inc. and Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Inc. (collectively "Cliffs") over Cliffs' refusal…
May 4, 2012 Apple is a want – global resources are needs Here’s a different way of showing how energy stocks have lagged.
May 4, 2012 Brazil’s Government wins latest round in Vale tax match Brazilian mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) announced the country's Superior Court of Justice ruled in favour of the federal tax authority in its appeal against an injunction granted in March suspending…
May 3, 2012 First Nickel nearly doubles production in Q1 Toronto-based First Nickel (TSX:FNI) had a good quarter, raising its production at the Lockerby mine 87% from Q4 2011.
May 2, 2012 Strike and lower copper price hurt First Quantum production A lower copper price and a strike at its Kansanshi mine in Zambia has bit into the bottom line at Africa-focused base metals producer First Quantum Minerals.
May 2, 2012 US metal and industrial metal mine salaries for 2011 There is no such thing as an average miner. There is no such thing as an average salary. Yet we can get some idea of how well mining people are…
May 1, 2012 2011 wages for US metal and industrial mineral mines There are conventionally 2,080 work hours in a year. Thus somebody earning a wage of $20 an hour gets the equivalent of a salary of about $42,000. Considering the mine…
May 1, 2012 Mining blamed for Canadian economy unexpected dip in February Canada's gross domestic product surprisingly dropped 0.2% in February, with all fingers pointing at the manufacturing and mining sectors, particularly potash and nickel producers, as the main responsible, says the…
How a reclusive ex-Glencore trader became Indonesia’s nickel king Arif Kurniawan has gone from earning paychecks at Glencore to controlling approximately a third of his country’s domestic trade in nickel ore. December 28, 2025 | 03:25 pm
