July 5, 2011 $20 billion in diamonds and gold found at Indian temple Investigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under a centuries-old Indian Hindu temple as police guarded round the clock the shrine where billions of dollars worth of…
July 4, 2011 India mineral output slumps 14.5% in April The Economic Times reports Indian mineral production declined 14.52 percent in April compared to the preceding month due to sharp drop in the output of coal, bauxite and copper, official…
July 4, 2011 Thousands strike at Freeport’s Grasberg mine in Papua According to reports more than 7,000 workers from Freeport McMoRan's massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia's western Papua region started a week-long strike on Monday to demand better wages.…
July 4, 2011 Peabody, China and Russia teams chosen for massive Mongolian coking coal mine Mongolia chose U.S. miner Peabody Energy , a venture between China's Shenhua and Japan's Mitsui & Co, and a Russian-led consortium as preliminary winners to jointly develop the prized Tavan…
July 4, 2011 Deep sea mud is rich in rare earth elements A team of Japanese scientists have found large quantities of rare earth minerals on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. In a Nature Geoscience article published on Monday, the team…
July 3, 2011 No power to close Cebu coal plant (Source: Sun Star Daily) Entertainment THE bank that financed the controversial coal-fired power plant in Naga City, Cebu said it has no power to padlock the facility if owners fail…
July 3, 2011 MMTC drops proposal to buy overseas coal mines New Delhi : In a major consolidation exercise, state-owned trader MMTC Ltd has dropped plans of buying overseas coal mines, commercial farming in Africa and generating electricity locally. The company…
July 3, 2011 Corporate News: Copper miner keen on JV, takeover for Negros Oriental site BANGALORE -- Copper Development Corp., which has stakes in several mining projects in the Philippines, has received interest from a number of mining firms for a project in Negros Oriental,…
July 3, 2011 Indian coke industry hopeful of riding steel boom IBNS cited Mr Ganesan Natarajan Encore Coke Ltd President as saying that the merchant coke sector in eastern India is hopeful of riding the boom of steel production in the…
July 3, 2011 Kingsrose discovers gold lining FOR some, the Bre-X gold fraud scandal of the 1990s wasn't all bad. Before the addition of scrapings of gold jewellery to assays from the Canadian company's Indonesian deposit was…
China aluminum output at record, steel below 1 billion tons Aluminum production increased 2.4% to to 45.02 million tons, having risen every year this decade. January 19, 2026 | 09:27 am
