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The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights: Meet mining’s 40 richest billionaires

MINING.com counts more than 90 billionaires involved in minerals, metals and mining on the planet with a combined wealth of well over $300 billion.

Frik Els | April 16, 2012 | 12:01 am

It’s crunch time for UK Coal as it heads for big restructuring

The very survival of Britain?s coal mining industry depends on the success of a massive restructuring of UK Coal, which is to be announced in the next fortnight.

This is Money | April 14, 2012 | 9:17 pm

Coal takes a beating after China’s GDP numbers disappoint

China, the world's biggest consumer of coal, said that the gross domestic product came in at 8.1% in the first quarter, the lowest figure in three years.

Michael Allan McCrae | April 13, 2012 | 8:11 pm

Minerals Council of Australia restarts anti tax ad campaign

The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) resumed today an ad campaign initially launched in July last year, attacking alleged hikes on the federal government's mining and carbon taxes.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 13, 2012 | 10:53 am

China soft landing likely, says World Bank

The Chinese economy is likely to land softly, rather than with a jolt, with growth forecast at 8.2% this year and 8.6% in 2013, according to The World Bank.

Andrew Topf | April 12, 2012 | 7:37 pm

Who’s the fairest of them all: David Suzuki Foundation ranks provinces on climate change leadership

David Suzuki Foundation says Quebec, Ontario and B.C are "Very Good" regarding climate initiatives while Alberta and Saskatchewan rank as "Worst".

Michael Allan McCrae | April 12, 2012 | 4:45 pm

Indonesia not only wants to own foreign mining co’s, now it will impose higher taxes on them too

Indonesia wants to have its mining cake and eat it too, as the country, one of the world's largest exporters of copper and coal, will speed up a tax on mining exports, the industry minister Mohamad S. Hidayat told Reuters today.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 12, 2012 | 2:50 pm

Gold can now protect us from both economic and environmental collapse

While gold's primary use these days is a hedge against Europe going belly up or paper currency becoming debased, researchers at MIT found that a little gold added to copper can also act as a strong catalyst and convert carbon dioxide into methane or methanol.

Michael Allan McCrae | April 11, 2012 | 8:13 pm

New report shows resource investors cannot pick a worse spot to put their money than Toronto

Overall, only the stock indices of Spain and Portugal's top companies fared worse than Toronto's S&P/TSX-60. But in the group of resource-heavy exporting countries Canada's stock market came in stone last.

Frik Els | April 10, 2012 | 8:02 pm

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