Peru blows up machines to scare away illegal gold miners
Just weeks before the country hosts U.N.-sponsored climate talks.
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The makings of a discovery
In this case, our junior is looking in the most prospective and geologically fertile place in the world for discovering uranium. There’s no contest here, if you are looking for uranium the Athabasca Basin in Northern Saskatchewan and Northeastern Alberta is where you need to be.
Cliffs mulls closing Bloom Lake iron ore mine for lack of buyers
Closing the mine will cost $650 million to $700 million over the next five years.
Finding gold dollars in Nevada: Thomas Drolet
Patience is the key to a golden future for both investors and miners. Thomas Drolet of Drolet & Associates Energy Services Inc. is an energy expert who is also an avid gold investor.
Resource titan, Robert Friedland on the future of Platreef
After the Toronto Stock Exchange rang the closing bell today, Ivanhoe Mines (IVN.TSX) announced they were resuming development work on Platreef, their 75.7 million ounce (Indicated + Inferred) platinum-gold-nickel-copper project in South Africa.
A Russian miner, a good camera, the arctic tundra: here’s the result
Ivan Kislov is a young Russian mining engineer who spends his breaks taking breath-taking photographs of wild animals, mostly foxes, in the arctic tundra.
Strike at Peru’s top copper mine not hurting output: firm
But unionized workers insist on claiming that Antamina's output would likely drop by at least 90%.
Dismal China data drops copper price back below $3
And if the Chinese government stops adding to its strategic reserves the price could fall towards $2.50 a pound says new research report.
South African miners to tackle lung disease claims
They will look at compensation and medical care for workers with occupational lung disease or "silicosis."
