South Africa Govt Committed to Thriving Mining Industry
The government of South Africa is committed to creating a thriving and successful mining industry, the Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu said yesterday. Addressing hundreds of ...
View ArticleSouth Africa Shift Needed in Mining Model - Ramphele
Cape Town - Sustainable mining is the only future for South Africa, Gold Fields chairwoman Mamphela Ramphele said on Wednesday. "We have to accept that the traditional way of mining in SA, with ...
View ArticlePetition to halt oil exploration in Ecuadorean Amazon gets 1m signatures
oil exploration in a pristine corner of the Ecuadorean Amazon has collected more than a million online signatures in little more than a week.The show of support is a major boost to the small ...
View ArticleBHP cuts more Olympic Dam jobs
BHPBilliton (ASX, NYSE, LON: BHP), the world's number one miner, has announced another round of job cuts at its massive Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold project in South Australia. According ...
View ArticleBig holes found in Canada’s oil spill plans
latest audits by the federal Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development. The document shows authorities are not fully prepared to handle a major leak and that liability limits for ...
View ArticleGil Leathley is appointed Chief Operating Officer of Sunward
Feb. 6, 2013 /CNW/ - Sunward Resources Ltd. ("Sunward" or the "Company") (TSX: SWD) (OTCQX: SNWRF) announced today that Gil Leathley has been appointed to the position of Chief ...
View ArticleYandera Project EPC pricing received from Chinas NFC Feasibility Study update...
Fixed Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) pricing, for processing facilities, mine infrastructure and port facilities of US$1.42 billion received from China's NFC, to form part ...
View ArticleHarmony reports fatality at demolition site
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – JSE-listed Harmony Gold on Wednesday reported that a contract worker had been fatally injured in an accident at its Saaiplaas 3 demolition site. ...
View ArticleTotal Signs Up for Cyprus Exploration
NICOSIA - Cyprus on Wednesday signed an agreement with French energy major Total S.A. to conduct exploratory drilling for gas and oil in two blocks off its southern shore. The deal comes as Cyprus ...
View ArticleMarathon Oil 4th-Quarter Net Falls 41 on Lower Exploration Production Income
Marathon Oil Corp.'s (MRO) fourth-quarter earnings fell 41%, partly due to write-downs and other charges, and the company fell short of analysts' expectations as high taxes and exploration ...
View ArticleMining - not agriculture - is the major worry for the Great Barrier Reef
Pollutant run-off from agriculture is a well-known cause of reef damage, but the expansion of ports for coal export along the Queensland coast is now having a serious ...
View ArticleMetals Stocks Gold futures edge higher top $1675 an ounce
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures edged higher Wednesday, finding support from weakness in U.S. equities as investors looked ahead the European Central Bank's policy meeting this ...
View ArticleDominican Republic fast tracks mining permits
Getting a mining permit in the Dominican Republic will take no more than four months from the moment a company submits its formal application, ...
View ArticleBeach Energy Limited Monthly Drilling Report - January 2013
Beach Energy Limited (ASX:BPT) Monthly Drilling Report - January 2013, highlights include; - Moonta-1 gas flow proves concept of basin centred gas play- Holdfast-2 drilling horizontally in Murteree ...
View ArticleCRG’s 2012 production within guidance
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - LSE- and JSE-listed gold miner Central Rand Gold (CRG) produced 13 709 oz of gold in 2012, which was within 98% of the production guidance issued in its third ...
View ArticleMining in need of a new business model - Ramphele
- In a robust key note address on day two of the 2013 Mining Indaba, Dr Mamphela Ramphele, told delegates too often the benefits of mineral resources have not benefitted the majority of citizens. ...
View ArticleSouth Africa mining to shed jobs in troubled times
plan to bring profits back to its South African platinum arm are the just the first of many the sector is about to bleed.Once an engine of job creation, South Africa's mining industry faces ...
View ArticleMining jobs in W.Va. continue downward slide in Q4
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia lost more than 1,200 coal mining jobs in the last quarter of 2012, nearly two-thirds of them in strip ...
View ArticlePublic gold audit petition in the U.S. posed to be defeated
petition demanding a public audit of the U.S. gold reserve is likely to come up short of the 25,000 signatures goal by Feb. 8. By Tuesday morning it hadaccumulated a bit over 18,000 signatures. The ...
View ArticleChiles Collahuasi says mineral resources up 19 pct in 2012
SANTIAGO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - World No.3 copper mine Collahuasi said on Wednesday its mineral resources grew by 19 percent to 9 billion tonnes last year compared with 2011 levels, due in part to new ...
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