March 20, 2012

Anglo looking for new coal assets

Anglo American is looking for thermal coal assets in Australia and Indonesia, especially as prices of potential targets have come down, the head of its thermal coal unit said in…

March 20, 2012

CIA trying to kill Australian coal industry, says Palmer

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been accused of involvement in coups and insurrections throughout history, but now an Australian mining tycoon is accusing the CIA of trying to sabotage…

March 20, 2012

Newest Version of Gemcom InSite Further Streamlines Data Management and Helps Improve Operational Efficiency

Gemcom Software International Inc., the largest global supplier of mining software solutions, today announced that it has released the latest version of its award-winning Gemcom InSite™ mine production management solution.

March 20, 2012

Heavy rainfall disrupts coking coal mining in Australia’s Queensland

Heavy rainfall in the last 48 hours has caused significant disruption at several coking coal mines in the Moranbah region of the Bowen Basin, in Australia's Queensland, market sources said…

March 20, 2012

Babcock awarded £100m fleet management contract with Lafarge

Lafarge has awarded Babcock International Group a £100m ten-year contract to provide a fleet managed service for its Heavy Mobile Equipment (HME) located across its Aggregate and Cement sites in…

March 20, 2012

South Africa’s platinum producers angered by ferro-chrome industry’s push for ore duty

The drive by major ferro-chrome producers to get the South African government to impose a $100-per-tonne export tax on chrome ore is meeting resistance.

March 20, 2012

Billions hacked off mining majors after BHP’s China comments

"The big infrastructure build clearly will come to some end," Ian Ashby, BHP's chief of iron ore said on Tuesday.

March 20, 2012

How to avoid being caught in a common gold scam

Recently, I read an article about how Congo born, Dikembe Mutombo, an all-star NBA defender, was nicely scammed in a fake gold deal.

March 20, 2012

Cash starts to disappear and privacy advocates worry

Sweden has come the furthest in getting rid of printed currency, but what do people lose when all transactions become traceable?

March 20, 2012

Enormous container ship has limited choices to unload cargo

The MSC Fabiola, with a carrying capacity of 11,000 containers, docked last week in the Port of Long Beach, one of a few shipping facilities in the U.S. that can…