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…
July 3, 2011 80 pct of power plants at risk of default over coal, env issues Warning that 80 per cent of the country's power plants face the risk of a default due to coal shortages and environmental issues, a body of power producers has petitioned…
July 3, 2011 Central banks in emerging markets increase gold reserves on growing economic concerns The total gold reserves of central banks worldwide fell by 9.6 per cent between 2000 and 2008 but has subsequently increased by 2.2 per cent from 29,870 tonnes in 2008…
Trump trade team working to narrow scope of metals tariffs Trump last year imposed a 50% levy on foreign steel and aluminum in a measure aimed at Chinese overcapacity. February 13, 2026 | 12:14 pm
