July 12, 2012 UPDATED-Seven killed after plane chartered by Kinross Gold crashes in Mauritania Seven people were killed Thursday when a military plane chartered by Canada's Kinross Gold Corp. crashed during takeoff in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, an army source told AFP.
July 12, 2012 Rio Tinto CFO steps down, major shakeup follows Rio Tinto's long-standing Chief Financial Officer, Guy Elliott, will retire at the end of 2013 announced the miner on Thursday, along with a few other senior management changes.
July 12, 2012 Chile’s largest open pit copper mine goes underground Chile’s largest open pit copper mine, Chuquicamata, has officially started its conversion towards underground mining. The project will cost Codelco over $2 billion in the preliminary phase but will substantially…
July 11, 2012 Madrid, Spain mining riots for coal subsidies While the United States Congress debates HR4402, a bill which would make it easier and cheaper to mine in the United States, Spanish coal miners are protesting cuts by the…
July 11, 2012 INFOGRAPHIC: A step-by-step on what is the Libor scandal Accounting.net put together a handy graphic to explain what Libor is, what the scandal was about and how the rest of the economy felt the impact.
July 11, 2012 Stans Energy up 10% after producing heavy REEs in Kyrgyzstan ahead of schedule The company said 50kg of dysprosium with 99.9% purity was separated from resins remaining from past production runs at the former Soviet Union's number one rare earth plant.
July 11, 2012 Diamond giant Alrosa holds first-ever auction of 10-carat plus diamonds in New York The Diamond Manufacturers & Importers Association of America (DMIA) announced that Alrosa, Russia's largest diamond company engaged in the exploration, mining, manufacture and sale of diamonds and one of the…
July 11, 2012 $100 million plus mining deal signed as national plant & equipment and Mitsui & Co join forces Yesterday, National Plant & Equipment Pty Ltd.(“National Plant & Equipment”) signed a historic deal with international trading house and mining power Mitsui & Co., Ltd.(“Mitsui & Co.”), seeing Mitsui &…
July 11, 2012 Botswana’s diamond exports almost double According to preliminary data released by the Bank of Botswana (BoB) on Monday, Botswana's May diamond exports were nearly 20% down from May 2011, a time when a global diamond…
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