About 100 workers evacuated from Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon Mine
Company removed employees from the mine’s lower pit and halted operations for the nigh as precautionary measures.
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Iron ore-rich Pilbara was once a separate continent: study
The Pilbara and Yilgarn Cratons regions were once a small continent, about the size of Japan.
EPA raid on Alaska’s gold mines triggers federal probe
Agency officials took part last month in an "armed inspection" to several gold mines near the remote town of Chicken, Alaska.
Gold getting knocked down again
Gold prices continued to nose-dive on Thursday, falling around 2,5% this morning to $1,329 after hitting a low $1,326 earlier.
The 5 biggest Australian mining services project cancellations
Chinese slowdown, weak commodity prices, rising costs, politics and poor business confidence sent these five monster mining services projects to the shelf.
Mining engineers rank among highest paid in British Columbia
Other mining industry employees also did quite well.
Gold’s headed for $1500, consumer demand to falter: Thompson Reuters gold survey
But it will settle at an average of $1,350 over the 2014 calendar year.
Glencore freezing $6bn project may be just the start as thermal coal price drops near 3-year low
Funding for coal plants drying up as thermal falls below $80 a tonne for the first time since October 2009.
Canadian gold miner gets environmental approval for Peruvian gold mine
Most important step in the permitting process cleared, says company.
