April 25, 2012

EduMine, AMEC, and Me on Mine Tailings

It was almost six months ago that we met at the 2011 Tailings and Mine Waste Conference in Vancouver.  It is only six months until we meet at the 2012…

April 25, 2012

Modest Canadian start-up wins clean technology competition with its green fuel

SABRTech Inc., a small Canadian company committed to producing and supplying biofuel for the aviation industry, it’s the winner of an international clean technology competition launched last September by the…

April 25, 2012

First Uranium committed to sell South African mines

TSX- and JSE-listed First Uranium (TSX:FIU) (JSE:FUM) announced it will stick with an earlier announced deal to sell the Ezulwini gold and uranium operation to Chinese-owned Gold One, with shareholders…

April 25, 2012

Dubai and Gujarat sign bilateral diamonds and textiles trade MOU

The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry recently consolidated their bilateral trade ties through an MoU signed during a recently concluded…

April 25, 2012

First hospital to treat black lung disease opens in China

A disease all-too-familiar to early coal miners from Europe and North America has found its way to China- where technology for making coalming safer is still decades behind the West.

April 25, 2012

Beau Sancy stone expected to fetch £2.5 million

One of the world's oldest, rarest, and most coveted diamonds is going up for auction at Sotheby's.

April 25, 2012

Rare earth juniors have a five-year window: John Kaiser

In 1992 in the junior mining sector, nobody was paying attention to diamonds. Then Lac de Gras was discovered. Within four years, there were 200 diamond exploration companies. Twenty years…

April 25, 2012

YPF nationalization could exacerbate Argentinian economy weakness

The Argentinian government's rush to expropriate control of oil company YPF "contribute to Argentina's deteriorating economic and political links with the international community," Standard & Poor warns.

April 25, 2012

Four victims found dead after coal mine landslide

Four of five missing people who were buried under a landslide in northern Thai Nguyen Province's Dai Tu District were found yesterday after a nine-day search.

April 24, 2012

Coal seen rebounding as China sets steel output record

Coking coal prices are set to rebound as early as July from four straight quarterly declines as China and India seek raw material overseas to fire new steel production in…