Strike hits Freeport’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia
More than 1,000 workers have gone on strike at Grasberg in a dispute with management over better conditions, including bonus payments.
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Canada’s federal government to impose carbon price on provinces
Feds plan to establish a “floor price” on carbon pollution of $10 a tonne in 2018, rising to $50 a tonne by 2022.
Energy investment boom expected in northern Chile
The projects, many of them in the renewables sector, are expected to also boost machinery acquisitions and generate close to 3,000 new jobs.
Mining headhunter says the clouds are parting
A look at the mood among executives at small- and mid-cap Canadian exploration and mining companies with Andrew Pollard, president of The Mining Recruitment Group.
Despite funding shortfall, US Oil Sands aiming for Q4 start-up
Calgary-based US Oil Sands is seeking over $6 million by year-end to finish $62.5-million project.
Will falling Chinese imports put the brakes on rising silver price?
We would tend to disagree, taking silver’s more valuable sibling as a guide.
Majors are on the hunt for new metal
Conversations and conferences of late have reinforced a few factors that define today’s young mining bull market.
Scrap value of copper encourages wire thieves in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan police saw increased interest in copper wire.
Chinese firm buys Anglo American niobium and phosphate operation in Brazil
CMOC bought Fosfatos Brasil Limitada and Nióbio Brasil Limitada for US$1.7 billion.
