Alcoa splits company to emphasize technology business
The mining side will keep the Alcoa name.
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Curfman joined Caterpillar in 1994.
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Zinc scrapes 5-year low
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Cigar Lake mine officially starts production
Saskatchewan mine is the second largest high-grade undeveloped uranium deposit in the world.
Alberta to consider mountaintop coal mine for company facing environmental probe
Alberta’s energy regulator is about to consider a plan for a large mountaintop coal mine at the same time it investigates the proponent for possibly fouling a crucial spawning stream for endangered trout.
Top gold ETF has best week since January
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Innovation: Wirtgen Surface Miners detect more and extract more
Wirtgen has developed two innovations: a camera system for rock interface detection and a cutting drum unit for the flagship Surface Miner 4200 SM that is set to sustainably optimize the mining of mineral deposits.
