April 14, 2012 Billionaire behaving badly? Glencore’s Glasenberg caught in Africa child labour, acid dumping row In a scathing new BBC documentary that includes the first ever television interview with CEO Ivan Glasenberg, commodities trader Glencore is accused of allowing dumping of acid into streams, child…
April 14, 2012 It’s crunch time for UK Coal as it heads for big restructuring The very survival of Britain?s coal mining industry depends on the success of a massive restructuring of UK Coal, which is to be announced in the next fortnight.
April 14, 2012 Gold miners should reconsider hedging – GFMS For metals consultancy Thomson Reuters GFMS’s Paul Walker, looking to hedge from a position of strength would serve miners well when prices do eventually fall.
April 14, 2012 Churchill Mining to seek over $2 billion from Indonesia London-listed Churchill Mining will take the Indonesian government to international arbitration and seek more than $2 billion in compensation in a dispute over a huge coal asset.
April 14, 2012 Goldcorp planning to step up information flow in view of public concerns over open pit Hollinger pit project moving forward yet many Timmins people seem unaware.
April 13, 2012 Gold tumbles late Friday Gold futures trading on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange experienced an after-hours selloff on Friday with prices tumbling $20 in a flurry of end-of week liquidation.
April 13, 2012 Ivanhoe staggers as Ouy Tolgoi costs balloon to $13 billion Ivanhoe and Rio Tinto not only have to deal with higher projected mining and processing costs at the mega-mine but also development delays and most worryingly, lower ore grades.
April 13, 2012 Processing plant to cost $302 million- 1/3 of Avalon’s rare earth project capex Avalon Rare Metals, whose Nechalacho rare earth prospect in Canada's Northwest Territories is in the midst of a feasibility study, today announced the results of a separate prefeasibility study for…
April 13, 2012 Silver miners building for breakout: Chris Marchese The health of the U.S. economy may not be quite as robust as some government statistics indicate and more stimulus could be on the way, despite what the Fed may…
April 13, 2012 Coal takes a beating after China’s GDP numbers disappoint China, the world's biggest consumer of coal, said that the gross domestic product came in at 8.1% in the first quarter, the lowest figure in three years.
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