Diavik mine to axe jobs in the eve of open pit closure
Massive layoffs are expected before the end of the month at Diavik, in Canada's Northwest Territories, as the diamond mine is set to close its open-pit section.
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Silvercorp uses Chinese police to silence and suppress censorious short-sellers
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Teck confesses to a century of US river pollution
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Does Doctor Copper’s breakout portend further bullish trends?
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Bernanke will absolutely implement QE3: Lundin
Brian Lundin says Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will "absolutely" implement a third round of quantitative easing.
Plans for a Second Mining School in India
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Oscar Mayer pushes the bacon-backed dollar
Oscar Mayer is launching a novel new experiment in the use of bacon as a viable currency.
Summer at San Gold
Kourtney Kerelation provides a piquant account of her work experience at San Gold in verse form.
Unrest returns to South African gold mine
Labour unrest spread in South Africa on Monday when 15,000 workers stopped operations at a Gold Fields (JSE, NYSE, NASDAQ Dubai: GFI) mine while few workers reported for duty in the fourth week of a stoppage at Lonmin (LON:JSE) , the world’s third largest platinum mine.