December 22, 2015 Death toll from Brazilian dam burst climbs — BHP The miner raised the death toll from the catastrophic dam burst at a mine in Brazil last month to 17 from 13 and said there are two people still missing.
December 22, 2015 What to expect for 2016: Top predictions for the mining industry Will commodities continue to “bump along the bottom” or is a recovery coming by mid-year? The jury is out.
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.
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