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Goodbye Sam Walsh: Rio names copper boss as new CEO

The change of leadership comes as the mining giant and its peers look for a way out of a prolonged commodity slump.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 17, 2016 | 3:59 am

Adani $12 billion Carmichael coal project closer to lease

If built, Carmichael would be Australia's largest coal mine.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 17, 2016 | 3:15 am

Bankruptcy looms for world’s largest private coal miner

"Substantial doubts" St-Louis-based Peabody Energy with history traced back to…

Frik Els | March 16, 2016 | 2:56 pm

British Columbia native land claims continue to conflict with mineral rights

In recent months, mineral claims in B.C. have been put…

Business In Vancouver - Nelson Bennett | March 15, 2016 | 4:50 pm

Murray River mine shelved, Chinese workers sent home

Coal mine near Tumbler Ridge is being put on care…

Andrew Topf | March 15, 2016 | 2:44 pm

Canada’s oil and gas industry will need to fill at least 9,500 jobs by 2015

Canada's oil and gas industry will need to fill a minimum of 9,500 jobs by 2015, according to a report released today by the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada.

Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada | May 31, 2012 | 7:21 pm

Outer Harbour 1, Olympic Dam-Jansen 0: BHP gets final approval for $20 billion iron ore expansion

There are "growing signs" that Outer Harbour will take precedence over BHP's massive Olympic Dam project and the greenfield Jansen potash venture in Canada.

Frik Els | May 31, 2012 | 6:29 pm

Why isn’t this copper miner smiling? He’s getting a $45 million bonus just for staying on

In all $265 million will be doled out to senior management at Xstrata to stop them from jumping ship after a merger with Glencore. The two companies are also paying $200 million to their advisers to push the deal through.

Frik Els | May 31, 2012 | 5:36 pm

Joy Global sinks to year-low, forecasts further US and worldwide slowdown

“Our second quarter reflects both excellence in our execution and concerns over slowing in our markets”

Frik Els | May 31, 2012 | 4:00 pm

Glenstrata ready to become the largest mining industry merger in recent history

The prospectus giving details of the creation of a $90 billion mining and commodities trading behemoth will finally find its way to the inboxes of shareholders today.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 31, 2012 | 2:49 pm

Owners of Big Sandy throw in the towel and withdraw $1bn retrofit plans

New York Times reports that Big Sandy, an eastern Kentucky coal-burning plant, will not be retrofitted so it can meet environmental regulations.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 31, 2012 | 5:27 am

Aussie mining jobs aplenty, if you have the right tickets

ABC News examines the rumour that big money can be made in mining in Australia with nary more than a high-school diploma.

MINING.com Editor | May 30, 2012 | 10:39 pm

Olympic Dam decision pushed to the wire

If the board of the world's largest miner does not make a decision on the giant copper-gold-uranium-silver project in South Australia's outback by 8 December then it would lose all approvals and royalties concessions.

Frik Els | May 30, 2012 | 9:00 pm

‘A decade of rising commodity prices is always followed by two decades of declines.’ Now you tell us!

Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley, makes one of the most bearish statements yet on the end of the so-called commodity supercycle.

Frik Els | May 30, 2012 | 5:06 pm

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