February 26, 2012 Stand-off continues in central Qld coal mines A dispute between unions and one of the world's biggest coal miners has escalated with more industrial action planned in central Queensland this weekend.
February 26, 2012 EU approves aid for closure of 3 coal mines The European Commission has authorised 1169 million Romanian lei (approximately €270 million) of public funding for the closure of three uncompetitive coal mining units owned by National Hard Coal Company…
February 26, 2012 Coalspur Mines Limited (ASX:CPL) enters into C$70 million facility agreement Coalspur Mines Limited (ASX:CPL.AX - News) (TOR:CPT.TO - News) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding agreement with the Highland Park Group for a C$70 million…
February 26, 2012 Rio Tinto, Vale discuss sharing rail system – report Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) is talking to Vale SA (VALE) about sharing rail and port infrastructure for their respective Simandou iron ore projects in Guinea, The Australian Financial Review reported…
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investment company CITIC will help develop the potentially extremely large Las Cristinas gold project which has been withdrawn from Crystallex.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…
South32 HY profit beats estimates, trims production view for Brazil operations Its underlying earnings attributable was $435 million for the half-year ended December 31. February 11, 2026 | 02:29 pm
