Beijing’s appalling air pollution exposed by NASA satellites
Satellite images released by NASA reveal the full and appalling extent of the air pollution which afflicting large swathes of north-eastern China
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Peru ready to roll with ‘prior consultation’ mining law
Peru's indigenous communities will now have their say in each and every mining project potentially affecting them.
Report: Germany plans to do a Chavez and bring home its gold
Germany has more than $120 billion worth of gold stored in vaults in New York, London and Paris.
Greenland rare earths: PM would welcome ‘thousands of Chinese workers’
Autonomous Danish territory is "too reliant" on fisheries and EU subsidies.
Paragon Diamonds commissions Lesotho’s Lemphane scoping study
The miner commissioned three companies for scoping and drilling work to help to move its Lemphane kimberlite project in Lesotho to inferred resource status.
Vale’s Roger Agnelli reaches number four on Harvard’s best-performing CEO list
A 934% shareholder return during his 10-year tenure and a 157% market capitalization gain
Rio Tinto’s diamond output up 12% in 2012
Diamond production climbed 9% to 3.248 million carats in the last quarter of 2012.
Diavik diamond mine’s Q4 production climbs 19%
Production at the Diavik mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories was up 19% in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to the same period in 2011.
MineARC Launches ‘Next Generation’ Refuge Chambers in 2013
In January 2013 MineARC Systems will launch its latest model range of refuge chambers for the hard rock mine (HRM) industry – The HRM Series IV.