How much do you think you know about mining? We typically think of there being theoretical and practical knowledge. Then there’s common sense – or what we often refer to as street smarts. The most rounded and successful individuals in mining tend to be those that have all three. Street smarts provide you with a worldly common sense of how to operate in mining’s everyday life. A street smart individual listens, understands, operates and communicates with confidence.  In mining terms, this would be a sound knowledge of the many key and current entities in mining, from the people, to the mines, to the disasters and events.

The mine is one of the world's biggest copper-zinc pits.

It was dropped by accident in his change cup.

Canada is the third largest exporter of metallurgical coal in the world (after Australia and the United States), shipping most of the 27 million tonnes of metallurgical and thermal coal produced every year in B.C.

The Japanese port city of Ishinomaki received an anonymous parcel containing two 1 kilogram gold bars worth over $250,000.

“They can do what they want,” said Energy and Mines Minister Rich Coleman.

BHP Billiton-owned Appin coal mine in southern Australia will lock out its workforce Sunday amid tense negotiations with supervisors over a new corporate agreement.

Washington authorities claim no higher radiation levels have been detected at the site, but the leak could be in the range of 150 gallons to 300 gallons.

The country rejected Saturday an independent report claiming security forces used white phosphorus in a crackdown on a Chinese-backed copper mine protest last November.