Coal dead? Peak oil demand? Five takes on fossil fuels’ future
Mining mogul Bob Murray offered a passionate defense of coal, asserting that we’d all “die in the dark” without it.
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Harmony Gold says $519,000 of metal stolen from S. African mine
Thieves broke into Harmony Gold Mining Co.’s Kalgold mine Tuesday morning and stole 12 kilograms (386 ounces) of the precious metal.
Agarwal offers Anglo help in tapping India’s 1.3 billion people
The mining tycoon wasn’t explicit about whether he wanted to assist Anglo with increasing sales to India or to start operating mines there.
‘Urban mining’ in S.Korea pulls rare battery materials from recycled tech
In 2016, the most recent year from which data is available, 19.6 trillion won ($18.38 billion) worth of metals were extracted from recycled materials.
Can China fill aluminium shortage after Rusal sanctioned?
International prices, which have shot up more than 10 percent since the sanctions were announced, will have to rise further to lure exports from China.
De Beers is said to lift diamond prices for second straight sale
The company raised prices a similar amount in its previous sale at the end of February.
Burkina Faso to end tycoon Frank Timis’s manganese mining contract
Timis's Pan African Burkina Limited (PAB) acquired the rights to the Tambao mine, which it says holds 100 million tonnes of manganese reserves, in June 2012.
Coal mogul’s novel plan to save coal is to buy it: Gadfly
Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp., has a novel idea to save U.S. coal: buy the stuff himself.
Lucara recovers 472 carat diamond, third largest ever for Karowe
Recovered from the Karowe Diamond Mine located in Botswana.
