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Kicked out of small town motels, Australia’s ‘coal girls’ resort to RV parks

Rural communities in Australia’s mineral-rich states are unhappy about the many working girls following highly-paid miners into their small towns and motel and hotel owners are kicking out prostitutes using their rooms to ply their trade.

Frik Els | January 9, 2012 | 7:27 pm

Indian coal giant buys SA rights

Later this month Coal India Ltd (CIL), the world's biggest coal producer, will sign an agreement with the Limpopo government in terms of which it will receive mining rights on various coal blocks in that province.

Finance 24 | January 8, 2012 | 9:35 am

Scientists worry about a greenhouse feedback loop as the permafrost warms up

Given that the earth's temperature is rising, sciencetists are investigating if gases trapped in the permafrost are going to be released and what effect it will this have on the climate.

Michael Allan McCrae | January 4, 2012 | 9:10 pm

Natural disasters, gold price among Top Mining Stories of 2011

2011 will go down as the year when the wind fell out of the sails of economic recovery and serious storm clouds gathered on the horizon.

Andrew Topf | January 1, 2012 | 4:46 am

The Year of the Deal: Top 10 mining M&A in 2011

If 2010 was the year of rising commodity prices, 2011 was the year of The Deal.

Andrew Topf | December 30, 2011 | 10:38 pm

Can coal ever come clean? Movement tripped up by lack of hard science and environmental opposition

What happened to the clean coal movement? Benjamin Gotlieb, blogging for the web news portal of the Los Angeles-based Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication, addresses the question of whether carbon dioxide can safely be stored in the earth's crust.

Andrew Topf | December 30, 2011 | 6:38 am