May 27, 2012 Return to the Rio Tinto If there is one mining project anywhere in the world that could warrant the old Hollywood blockbuster title of Back to the Future it must be EMED Mining’s Rio Tinto…
May 27, 2012 Freaky Friday looms for gold Gold faces a crucial test in the coming holiday-shortened week with crucial US jobs numbers out on Friday and the ongoing Eurozone crisis making or breaking the yellow metal's assault…
May 27, 2012 Beijing iron exchange handled only 8 transactions in its first 3 weeks It has been a slow start for China’s first physical iron ore trading platform which was launched with the idea that it would give China greater influence on the price…
May 27, 2012 Bloomberg: Gold boom spreading mercury as 15 million miners exposed Bloomberg has a devastating in-depth report on the impact of gold mining in a small town in Colombia called Segovia where "almost 100 shops refine the gold that prospectors bring…
May 26, 2012 UK greens warn of a return to era of ‘dirty coal’ Coal-fired power stations trialling 'carbon capture' technology could be exempt from regulations.
May 26, 2012 Military drones for mines and tailings I can hardly wait to get my first project involving the use of a drone to monitor the performance of a mine tailings facility. These days some are so big…
May 26, 2012 Smelly anti-coal-mining protests Protesters of a mining conference in downtown Vancouver were throwing more than just rocks.
May 25, 2012 EU sideswipes oilsands with new fuel directive A new fuel-quality directive, passed yesterday by the European Union, will create a separate label for Canadian oil produced from oilsands.
May 25, 2012 Aussie travel company and main airlines cash in on mining boom Hoping to cash on the booming mining industry in Australia and the need for foreign workers, Corporate Travel Management (CTM) has announced a step into Australia’s growing mining industry with…
May 25, 2012 It was only a matter of time. Creditors’ lawyers descend on Baja Mining Friday's complication is just the latest setback for Vancouver-based Baja which has now lost almost 70% of its value this year.
Another arrest made in ‘largest gold heist in Canadian history’ In April 2023 about 880 pounds of gold was offloaded from a flight at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport after arriving from Zurich, along with C$2.5 million in cash. January 12, 2026 | 04:55 pm
