Pocket of strength: employment in the mining industry
Did you know that one of the industries that has seen the best job growth in the U.S. is mining?
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Xstrata-Glencore merger to be decided Sep 7
Giant miner Xstrata has set Sep. 7 as the day for its shareholders to vote on the $26 billion takeover by Glencore, giving the commodities trader six weeks to reach an agreement on the conditions.
Goldcorp lowers guidance due to drought and production delays
Goldcorp, the world's second-largest gold miner, said expected gold production would drop 8% due to problems at Peñasquito and Red Lake.
Adaptive E-Learning is the Future of Higher Education
As the Conversation reports, Dror Ben-Naim says that adaptive e-learning will be the future of higher education and will replace the common […]
North American Palladium’s $43 million debt offering
In order to increase production and reduce cost per ounce at its flagship Lac des Iles mine, North American Palladium (TSE:PDL) is raising Can$43 million on a bought deal basis for capital expenditures.
China data upsets markets, gold
Worries about China and the possibility of a hard landing weighed on markets and commodities.
The real fiscal cliff
The media is now fixated on an apparently new feature dominating the economic landscape: a "fiscal cliff" from which the United States will fall in January 2013.
REE stocks are down but not out: Siddharth Rajeev
Equity investing is squarely in a risk-off phase and few sectors have been hit harder than junior mining.
Meteor crater in Greenland could yield nickel riches
Vancouver junior, North American Nickel (CVE:NAN), said that its Greenland property is the remains of a gigantic, three-billion-year-old meteorite impact, and displays a similar geological formation found in the Sudbury Basin.
