Mexico shaker leaves mines intact
There are few, if any, reports of damage to mines hours after a large earthquake rocked central and southern Mexico on Tuesday.
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Canadian NDP leader-in-waiting tones down anti-oilsands rhetoric
Thomas Mulcair, a leading light in Canada's New Democratic Party and the man most likely to become the Opposition Leader when the party votes next Saturday, appears to be moderating his stance on the Alberta oilsands.
Oyu Tolgoi named one of ’10 Beautiful Places We Could Destroy With Human Drilling’
The widely read Huffington Post in one of its characteristically breathless pieces on the environment on Tuesday calls out Ivanhoe Mines’ Mongolian project.
Anglo looking for new coal assets
Anglo American is looking for thermal coal assets in Australia and Indonesia, especially as prices of potential targets have come down, the head of its thermal coal unit said in an interview.
CIA trying to kill Australian coal industry, says Palmer
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been accused of involvement in coups and insurrections throughout history, but now an Australian mining tycoon is accusing the CIA of trying to sabotage the Australian coal industry.
Heavy rainfall disrupts coking coal mining in Australia’s Queensland
Heavy rainfall in the last 48 hours has caused significant disruption at several coking coal mines in the Moranbah region of the Bowen Basin, in Australia's Queensland, market sources said Tuesday.
South Africa’s platinum producers angered by ferro-chrome industry’s push for ore duty
The drive by major ferro-chrome producers to get the South African government to impose a $100-per-tonne export tax on chrome ore is meeting resistance.
Billions hacked off mining majors after BHP’s China comments
"The big infrastructure build clearly will come to some end," Ian Ashby, BHP's chief of iron ore said on Tuesday.
How to avoid being caught in a common gold scam
Recently, I read an article about how Congo born, Dikembe Mutombo, an all-star NBA defender, was nicely scammed in a fake gold deal.
