February 26, 2012 Malaysians protest against ore processing Thousands of people have rallied in Malaysia in a protest against an Australian miner's rare earths plant.
February 26, 2012 Mining causing water crisis in Meghalaya The mineral-rich Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya faces an acute drinking water crisis as major rivers there have been declared “unfit” for human use due to high level of acidity…
February 26, 2012 Former Crystallex Las Cristinas gold project to go ahead with Chinese help Venezuela's President Chavez has annoiunced that Chinese investment company CITIC will help develop the potentially extremely large Las Cristinas gold project which has been withdrawn from Crystallex.
February 26, 2012 Violence halts Papua mine production Freeport-McMoRan has suspended operations at it gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia's Papua province due to fighting among its employees.
February 26, 2012 Former Massey security chief sentenced to 3 yrs in prison Hughie Elbert Stover, the former security chief at the Upper Big Branch mine, was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison for lying to federal agents and obstructing an…
February 26, 2012 Molycorp fires up new rare earths plant Molycorp, the company in the process of expanding and modernizing a mine and processing plant closed down in 2002, this week announced the sequential start-up of its Project Phoenix rare…
February 26, 2012 UN watchdog suspects Iran is diverting uranium Iran may be diverting uranium for use in weapons research, according to a report by the UN International Energy Agency (IEA), a nuclear watchdog.
February 25, 2012 Polish Bogdanka Mine sets production world record with Cat® Plow Longwall On February 16, 2012, the Polish coal mining company Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A. smashed the world record for daily production from a plow-equipped longwall, with an output of 24,400 tonnes…
February 25, 2012 Soft coal market has Alpha Natural Resources focusing priorities Alpha Natural Resources took a $.73 billion hit in the fourth-quarter, but the US coal producer, the third largest of coking coal in the world, said it has a strategy…
February 25, 2012 Vedanta consolidation to create world’s 7th largest natural resources company London-based Vedanta Group (LON:VED) announced Saturday a merger of two of its subsidiaries, Sesa Goa and Sterlite Industries, into a new corporate entity to be named Sesa Sterlite.
China pledges to control steel output during 2026-2030 period In the first 11 months of 2025, China's crude steel output fell 4% from a year earlier. December 27, 2025 | 08:20 am
