MINING popularity and MINING trends

Exploiting the Ring of Fire, the mining exploration area in Northern Ontario is in the national interest, Dalton McGuinty says in a letter to the Prime Minister

Brazil's mining and energy ministry (MME) has postponed the A-3 and A-5 power auctions amid concerns about permit delays and stuttering demand for new projects. The A-3 bid round, originally set fo...

SENIOR Labor MPs demand Gillard withdraws approval for mining magnate to employ more than 1700 foreign workers.

UNIONS outraged after mining magnate Gina Rinehart granted permission by the government to employ hundreds of foreign workers.

UNION leaders have lashed out at a federal government skilled migration plan that will allow mining magnate Gina Rinehart to bring in 1700 foreign workers, saying it is a kick in the guts for Australian employees.

Australian mining and natural resources firms including Rio Tinto and Boart Longyear find American workers eager to travel Down Under for high-paying jobs in the country's isolated outposts.

Illegal mining was a growing problem which the government and police should inform the public about, the DA said on Thursday.

Latin America's promising exploration opportunities and established mining culture is making the region popular for Australia's explorers.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart is not a woman to pick a fight with, says Jonathan Pearlman.

MINING magnate Gina Rinehart topped the BRW Rich List with a $29.2bn fortune, overtaking Christy Walton as the world's richest woman.

HP Labs says the best office social networks require no effort.

The Copper Kings once lorded over Montana, picking the state's governors and senators. The grip of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company was so tight that it took a statewide initiative, the 1912 Corrupt Practices Act, to stop big corporations from buying a candidate's way into office. But exactly a century later, in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, corporations are comin...

Fluffeh writes "Around a year ago, a person working for the ABC in Australia with the highest levels of access to systems got caught caught with his fingers on the CPU cycles. The staffer had installed Bitcoin mining software on the systems used by the Australian broadcaster. While the story made a bit of a splash at the time, it was finally announced today that the staffer hadn't been sacked, ...

Repasamos en vídeo algunos de los temas que llevaron a los Bee Gees a ser uno de los grupos más famosos del mundo

MINING magnate Clive Palmer has made his presence known in Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's seat of Lilley.

This note is in response to the intellectual dishonesty charges raised by Dr A Q Khan against Dr Samar Mubarikmand. I am in agreement with Dr Khan due to the following reasons: 1. Dr Khan is a metallurgist which is linked with mining while Dr Samar's area is Electronics which is far removed from natural deposits like Thar Coal. 2. Development of Thar Coal is vital for the energy future of ...

This note is in response to the intellectual dishonesty charges raised by Dr A Q Khan against Dr Samar Mubarikmand. I am in agreement with Dr Khan due to the following reasons: 1. Dr Khan is a metallurgist which is linked with mining while Dr Samar's area is Electronics which is far removed from natural deposits like Thar Coal. 2. Development of Thar Coal is vital for the energy future of ...

This note is in response to the intellectual dishonesty charges raised by Dr A Q Khan against Dr Samar Mubarikmand. I am in agreement with Dr Khan due to the following reasons: 1. Dr Khan is a metallurgist which is linked with mining while Dr Samar's area is Electronics which is far removed from natural deposits like Thar Coal. 2. Development of Thar Coal is vital for the energy future of ...

Gold-mining stocks are trading at record lows, relative to the price of gold. Newmont Mining, the world's No. 2 gold miner—with a 3.1% yield—would be a big beneficiary if the price disparity narrows. Shares could rise 50%.

Large-scale mining operations in Alaska’s Bristol Bay will harm habitat for wild salmon, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded in a draft assessment Friday, but agency officials said they had not decided whether they would move to block a proposal for a major gold and copper mine there. Read full article >>

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska's copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Fitch's Greece downgrade and Moody's Spanish bank rating cut punished Asian markets overnight, and hit European shares this morning8.10am: European stock markets have fallen at the start of trading, with Spain's IBEX showing the steepest losses. The IBEX shed 128 points, or 2%, at the start of trading, hitting a new nine-year low of 6409 points. In London, the FTSE 100<...

BHP Billiton is leading the mining sector's retreat. For a company that prides itself on a long-term outlook, its retreat on spending plans is a hurried change of tune.

MINING baron Clive Palmer is suing the Sydney Morning Herald's publisher over a report that allegedly painted him as "dishonest".

CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) -- Fueled by high winds, a wildfire that has prompted the evacuation of a historic mining town in northern Arizona nearly tripled in size....

Oxfam America is suing the US Securities and Exchange Commission to try to get the SEC to force oil, gas and mining companies to disclose how much they pay to foreign governments.

Opposition parties again pushed the Tories to define “suitable employment” on Wednesday, prompted by a government claim last week there “is no bad job”

The MP police believes that the driver may have sold the chemical used as an oxidising agent in improvised explosive devices to either the red insurgents in neighbouring Chhattisgarh or the illegal mining mafia.

Former Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa moved for the bail on Wednesday after CBI raids on his residential and commercial premises in connection with illegal mining cases.

China Nonferrous Mining Corp, a unit of the State-owned metals producer, plans to raise $314 million in an Hong Kong IPO.

Mining group’s chairman Jac Nasser warns of further easing of commodity prices and says the business environment has changed

AUSTRALIAN stocks were down close to two per cent at noon with the resources-linked sectors doing it toughest on a day of broad-based declines.

May 15 (Reuters) - General Electric Co said on Tuesday it was buying two mining equipment firms, Australia's Industrea Ltd for $700 million as well as a privately held U.S. company, as it seeks to...

HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM thinks it can make geologists and engineers more effective at mining the fast-growing wealth of data on everything from oil reservoirs to refineries to help them find, extract and process oil.

The Obama administration said Monday that it would appeal a ruling by a federal judge that the Environmental Protection Agency illegally vetoed a major coal mining project in West Virginia.

Had it not been for coal mining, Wang Jun may never have made his most important discovery: a forest buried by a volcanic eruption almost 300 million years ago.

Although bullion has weakened in price, the technicals suggest that mining companies can finally make shareholders happy.

While much of the world is facing economic slowdown and recession, parts of Canada are enjoying a boom fuelled by the mining of oil

Newer threats, such as pirate skiffs chasing freighters and desperate regimes mining harbors, have intensified the U.S. Navy's need to handle an array of "real-world" scenarios.

TROU DU NORD, Haiti (AP) -- Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may hold the key to relieving centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is gold hidden in its hills - and silver and copper, too....

Industrial output in March fell sharply for the first time in five months, dragged down by a decline in manufacturing and mining sectors, prompting calls for easing interest rates and implementing policy decisions swiftly.

The Obama campaign added "clean coal" to the energy priorities on its web site this week, days after the president lost several counties in coal-rich West Virginia and criticism from GOP lawmakers. On a page outlining President Obama's "all-of-the-above" approach, the campaign replaced a section highlighting "fuel efficiency" with one highlighting "clean coal." The change was first reported by...

Indicating sharp slowdown in the economy, industrial production declined by 3.5 percent in March mainly on account of contraction in manufacturing and mining output.

For decades now, we have been witnessing atrocities perpetrated on the hapless inhabitants of India's very deep hinterlands where very precious ore has been discovered by mining companies that have their tentacles spread along the spectrum of the global forestlands.

There's gold in them there cellphones?

As once-mighty mining sector continues its sharp decline, joblessness and poverty afflict Welkom

Astana, Kasachstan (ots/PRNewswire) - Vom 4. bis 6. Juli 2012 steht im Palast der Unabhängigkeit in Astana die Montan- und Hüttenindustrie von Kasachstan im Rampenlicht, wenn sich beim Astana Mining & Metallurgy Congress (Montan- und Metallurgiekongress Astana) und dem Congress of …

A PIECE of rubber from a conveyer belt used in mining in Arnhem Land is gold in the hands of Yolngu artist Gunybi Ganambarr.

The superhero team that conquered the U.S. box office will be suiting up for a return engagement. Walt Disney Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Robert A. Iger said its Marvel Entertainment group is already in development on a sequel to "The Avengers," which shattered the opening weekend box-office record domestically -- and in markets around the world. The movie, featuring a slew of stars includ...

There should be plenty of discounted mining stocks out there, but finding the best bets requires some digging of your own

As petroleum production gets trickier, digital innovation becomes more crucial.

A PIECE OF glorious lunacy? Or inspired visionary thinking? The announcement by a consortium of billionaires that they are investing in a project to mine precious metals from passing asteroids is certainly a revival of the spirit of Cecil Rhodes. “To think of these stars that you see overhead at night,” the arch-imperialist and mining magnate dreamed, “these vast worlds which we can never reach...

The tiny County Durham mining village of Hetton-le-Hole has produced a series of football legends and Sunderland youngster James McClean is well on the way to becoming another.

Two decades ago, China entered the rare earths market. Since then China has become the world's largest exporter of these minerals.

Many entrepreneurs foresee vast profits in mining data from online activity and mobile devices. One Wharton business school professor strongly disagrees.

It's difficult to think of an upside to relinquishing your personal data—your privacy, really—to the prying eyes of the internet. But over at The Atlantic, Brian Fung makes a solid case for why data-mining might actually be doing a world of good behind the scenes. More »

SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia's central bank slashed its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point on Tuesday, a larger-than-expected cut that comes amid a slump in the housing market and lackluster growth in the nation's economy outside the booming mining sector....

AngloGold Ashanti says its Mongbwalu gold mine in the DRC faces the obstacle of ex-fighters already mining the area who do not want to leave.

Mining magnate Clive Palmer has announced plans to build an historically-accurate version of the doomed liner, which will make its maiden voyage from England to New York in 2016.

HE is worth more than three times Wayne Swan's expected budget surplus - and now mining magnate Clive Palmer is hoping to bury the Treasurer at the next election.

Trois compagnies souhaitent devenir le "partenaire stratégique" du gouvernement serbe dans l'aciérie Zelezara Smederevo, l'unique du pays, ont annoncé lundi les autorités serbes. La compagnie luxembourgeoise United Pilsen S.A., l'ukrainienne Donetsksteel Group ukrainienne et la russe Ural Mining...

One of Australia's richest men, Clive Palmer, on Monday unveiled plans to build a 21st century version of the doomed Titanic in China, with its first voyage from England to New York set for 2016.

Mining magnate Clive Palmer, one of Australia’s richest business people, said on Monday that he hoped to run for Parliament for the conservative opposition, which opinion polls suggest will win government next year.

The trustees of Brett Kebble's estate are going to court to try and reclaim a R250 000 donation the slain mining magnate made to the ANC.

New satellite imagery appears to show a train of mining carts and other preparations under way at North Korea's nuclear test site.

Her Majesty today made a poignant return to Aberfan, South Wales, where a total of 144 people were killed when a coal waste tip slide down a mountain, engulfing a school.

Planetary Resources, the Seattle-based 'asteroid mining' company set up by Google chiefs Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and filmmaker James Cameron is hiring.

Food for hungry mouths, feed for animals headed to the slaughterhouse, fiber for clothing and even, in some cases, fuel for vehicles--all derive from global agriculture. As a result, in the world's temperate climes human agriculture has supplanted 70 percent of grasslands, 50 percent of savannas and 45 percent of temperate forests. Farming is also the leading cause of deforestation in the tropi...

It’s for real: Planetary Resources, the world’s newest and most audacious space company, is set to start prospecting near-Earth asteroids…

Iron ore production by privately owned miners in Karnataka state will likely resume in July, mines minister, Dinsha Patel, said today, after what will have been a year's hiatus due to a government and judicial crackdown on illegal operations.

DESPITE the mining boom, the Australian people face years of spending restraint.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A group of high-tech tycoons wants to mine nearby asteroids, hoping to turn science fiction into real profits....

Planetary Resources will outline a plan to cut years and billions of dollars off current ideas of pursing mining in space by setting up a competition to have private space companies do the mining.

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Tweet Widget Facebook Like Prospective investors in China Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Corporation’s (CNMC) upcoming initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong should be aware of the company’s disturbing labor rights practices in Zambia. CNMC’s inability or unwillingness to respect worker’s rights in their Zambia operations raises critical questions about cor...

DR Congo wants a greater share of its mining wealth

In western Canada’s booming mineral and resource-based economy, a new mine or oil well is often nearby — even in the city. There are currently 12 working oil wells within Calgary’s city limits, for example, with a new one planned just behind the Wal-Mart garden center in that oil-rich Alberta town.

Signed pieces of Cartier and Tiffany jewelry belonging to a late Montana copper mining heiress have sold for nearly $21 million at a New York City auction.

Shareholders in Australia's Flinders Mines are getting a crash course in doing business in Russia.

Freport-McMoran Copper & Gold (FCX) tends to trade in tandem with the price of copper, but there’s been less correlation recently, notes Citi analyst Brain Yu. FCX has fallen in recent weeks, even as copper prices have held up relatively well. That presents a buying opportunity, Yu argues, upgrading shares to Buy. “Our upgrade is [...]

Holo-Tupac performed last night at Coachella; here is a YouTube of very uncertain life expectancy. NSFW language! Oddly, he lacks a shimmering H badge on this forehead, as required by the Jupiter Mining Corporation's bylaws on holographic human resources. [via Super Punch]

South Texas is striving to become a mining hub for uranium but environmentalists have concerns about contamination.

Researchers tracking mercury poisoning from artisanal gold mining in Colombia have found that people in Antioquia have the world's highest per head mercury pollution. Paul C Webster reports.

THE FFA are preparing for a $50 million day in court with Nathan Tinkler, after the mining magnate's extraordinary bid to dump his A-League licence.

Peru's government appealed to mining companies on Sunday for heavy equipment and experts to help free nine miners trapped for four days in an informal copper mine.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar's sovereign wealth fund has built a 5-percent stake in Xstrata ahead of the mining giant's planned $41 billion takeover by commodities trader Glencore .

The public hearing in New Zealand over the Pike River mining disaster that killed 29 people ends following final submissions this week.

In the world of indie gaming, Minecraft is undoubtedly in a league of its own. The sandbox game has already sold more than 5 million copies and has spawned its own subculture of fan sites and clones. Now, the game's creator Notch (nee Marcus Persson), has announced his next project called 0x10c: a multi-player space game set in 281,474,976,712,644 AD. Besides the usual space battles, trading an...

China’s rare-earth mining has given it dominance in the market for materials that go into everything from smart phones to electric cars, but the industry has exacted a toll on the country’s landscape and people.

Faleans, villagers in the south west region of Mali, have organised and united against the uranium mining, but their activism appears futile.

PARIS, March 28 (Reuters) - HIG European Capital Partners has offered to buy three French alumina plants from mining group Rio Tinto , Olivier Boyadjian, managing director of the private equity...

It's apparently not enough that Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has to solve mining protests and figure out how to keep the Latin American country's economy booming. Now his own highly eccentric family is adding more trouble with their antics.

Urgent action is needed to support Mongolia’s reindeer herders and protect them from unregulated mining, logging, water pollution and climate change, among other threats, according to a report by the UN environment agency, released today.

More than 1,000 indigenous protesters walk 700 kilometres to capital to express opposition to large-scale government projects

Protesters both in support and against the Ecuadorian president flooded to the capital over a copper mining issue.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard celebrated the passage of a controversial tax on profits generated by Australia's mining boom.

Canada’s most-indebted province will run a $1.5-billion deficit this year

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African lawyer said on Tuesday he was preparing a class action lawsuit against leading gold mining firms on behalf of thousands of former miners who say they contracted silicosis, a debilitating lung disease, through negligent health and safety.

The Syrian army recaptured the northern rebel stronghold of Idlib near the Turkish border, a major base that military defectors had held for months, a pro-government newspaper and an activist group reported on Tuesday. An international rights group, meanwhile, said the regime was mining the border with Turkey.

by Vasudevan Vasudevan Evasion ad nauseam   The manner in which the young police officer,  Mr Narendra Kumar, was crushed to death under a  stone laden lorry allegedly belonging to some mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh shocked an entire nation and  drew widespread condemnation.   One of the TV channels I watched brought an interview  with a panel comprising of  the Chief of police, , two BJP fu...

Up to 20 illegal miners were suspected dead after a rock fall at an abandoned mine in South Africa, a union said yesterday. There have been growing fears for the safety of unlicensed miners still working in abandoned shafts in Africa’s biggest economy. “One illegal miner was seriously injured, and, according to him, 20 were killed in a rock fall as a result of illegal mining activities in a min...

(REUTERS) - Twitter users are about to become major marketing fodder, as two research companies get set to release information to clients who will pay for the privilege of mining the data.

The owners of a stately home once described as "the finest Georgian house in England are mounting a claim for more than £100 million after claiming it has been devastated by mining substance.

Mining group Rio Tinto has unearthed an extremely rare pink diamond in Australia.

A protracted legal battle over an $11.5-million health study into whether diesel exhaust damages the lungs of miners has suddenly widened to take on scientific peer review. Editors with at least four research publications say they have received a letter advising them against "publication or other distribution" of data and draft documents. The warning, including a vague statement about "conseque...

On December 24, 2011, Mikhail Prokhorov—banking and mining billionaire, N.B.A. team owner, international playboy, and Russia’s third-richest man—set out to be among the people. A crowd of about eighty thousand had come out to Moscow’s Sakharov Avenue to demand free elections . . . (Subscription required.)

Its shares neither reflect its improved financial state or its growth options but more needs to be done to calm investors

Ormonde Mining has said it will publish a feasibility study for the mining of tungsten in Barruecopardo, Spain, later this month.

Two of the City’s biggest companies have outlined ambitious plans for a £56 billion mega-merger to create an unprecedented global mining and commodities powerhouse.

A climate change consultant at the Mining Indaba says global warming is a ruse to create a global bureaucracy to rule the world with impunity.

In a huge consolidation of the international mining industry, Swiss company Glencore International PLC has agreed to acquire rival Xstrata PLC for $61.9 billion in stock, the companies announced Tuesday.

Senate banking committee unanimously approves a package of measures aimed at shipping, energy, mining and finance companies

The Republican establishment would probably prefer that Newt Gingrich spend less time talking about lunar mining and space hotels. But the former House speaker may be the only true free-marketer in outer space. 

A law meant to spur the development of the West has outlived its purpose, and its environmental consequences have been severe.

A mining company has settled wrongful death lawsuits with families of all 29 victims of West Virginia's Upper Big Branch disaster.

Ein 19-jähriger Fahrschüler hat am Samstagabend in Mining im oberösterreichischen Bezirk Braunau einen Unfall mit drei Verletzten - darunter einem Kind - verursacht. Weil er durch eine SMS-Nachricht abgelenkt war, geriet er auf die Gegenfahrbahn und krachte in ein mit drei Personen besetztes Auto.

At heart of petition is legal question of whether Israel has a right to mine, use natural resources in Area C territories.

Nevada, the "Silver State," is well-known for mining precious metals. But some scientists do a different type of mining. They sluice through every water body they can find, looking for new forms of microbial magnetism.

Berkeley researcher Cyrus Wadia talks about his vision for the future of solar energy and demonstrates how to make a solar cell from fool’s gold.

Der chinesische Betreiber Yanzhou Coal Mining übernimmt den Kohleförderer Gloucester Coal. Damit machen sie sich weiter unbeliebt im Rohstoffmarkt in Down Under.

Large numbers of infants and toddlers have died from lead poisoning in Nigerian villages where their parents process gold ore inside their family compounds, according to a report published Tuesday by an international team of researchers. [More]

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A state measure to speed up the regulatory process for iron mines was met on Wednesday with a mix of support for the jobs a planned northern Wisconsin mine could create and concerns about its potential impact.

La suspensión del proyecto de oro y cobre de Minas Conga, de propiedad mayoritaria de Newmont Mining Corp., ha elevado los riesgos para Perú al tiempo que las compañías mineras buscan invertir unos US$50.000 millones allí esta década, dijeron analistas.

KARACHI - Free trade agreement (FTA) between Pakistan and Turkey will be signed next year. Due to law and order situation in Balochistan, it is not possible for us to provide any assistance in mining in the province. This was stated by Consul General of Turkey Murat M.Onart at Karachi… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Vedanta, the London-based diversified metals and mining company, has appointed Lodestar UM as its media agency. Ogilvy India has been associated with Vedanta for its creative requisites.