December 22, 2015 Australia ok’s vast coal port expansion near Great Barrier Reef The expansion work will require dredging 1.1 million cubic meters of seabed near the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
December 21, 2015 Caterpillar to pay $74 million after found guilty of stealing trade secrets England-based supplier Miller UK won a case filed five years ago, in which accused CAT of misusing classified information to produce its own coupler, rather than buying it from them.
December 21, 2015 Gemfields fetches $29 million in Singapore rubies auction The company managed to sell 90,642 carats of the 92,136 carats it made available under the auction.
December 21, 2015 Randgold Resources bails out of Ghana partnership with AngloGold The company said it believed that the Obuasi mine does not meet its criteria for making an investment.
December 18, 2015 De Beers closing another diamond mine, this time in Botswana Debswana, a 50/50 joint venture between De Beers and the government of Botswana, is set to close its Damtshaa mine and scale down production at Orapa.
December 18, 2015 Barrick completes sale of non-core Nevada assets to Waterton It expects to complete the sale of the Bald Mountain mine and its 50% interest in Round Mountain to fellow Canadian miner Kinross Gold by mid-January.
December 18, 2015 Chile’s court decision on whether force Antofagasta knock down Los Pelambres mine dam imminent Locals claim the dam has diverted the course of a local estuary, causing water shortages at a time of drought.
December 17, 2015 Hope fades for 19 trapped coal miners in China The site remained on fire on Thursday and the temperature inside the mine “could have reached 1,000 degrees” Celsius (over 1,600 Fahrenheit), according to rescue workers.
December 17, 2015 TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline costs up 30 pct to $15.7bn The firm has filed an amended application, which makes nearly 700 changes to the route in response to concerns about environmentally sensitive areas.
December 17, 2015 Aussie coal mine sold by Vale for $1 to reopen next year Stanmore Coal said it would employ 150 workers when the mine reopens in 2016; half the workforce in place when it closed last year.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
