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Ex-coal CEO sentenced to a year in prison over mine-safety conspiracy
The sentencing comes six years and one day after a fatal explosion killed 29 at Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine.
Vale cuts spending, management salaries
The iron ore and nickel giant has reduced its forecast for capital spending in 2016 to $5.5bn from $6.2bn previously.
Canadians to develop space mining tool
Deltion Innovations aims to design a drill that would prospect for water, ice and resources on the moon and beyond.
Osama Bin Laden was more than keen on gold
Documents recently declassified by the CIA revealed he was an avid gold investor and even predicted the price spike of 2010-2011.
The US Fed has $300bn in gold, new book reveals
Jim Rickards' latest book "The New Case for Gold" reveals that the Fed is holding massive amounts of gold at Fort Knox and West Point.
Copper miners’ game of chicken continues
New study predicts lowering of cost curve, marginal mines staying open at all costs will see oversupply persist and fifth year of copper price declines.
Freeport’s stuck with oil and gas
Copper giant's review of energy division results in axing of executives, but not much more.
Centerra Gold announces US$150M financing for Oksut project
OMAS will use the Facility to finance a substantial portion of the construction, development and operation of the Öksüt gold mine and its related infrastructure in the Kayseri region of central Turkey.
