BHP hikes exploration spending to focus mostly on copper, oil
It will raise its annual exploration spending by 29%, allocating nearly all its $900 million budget to finding new copper and oil deposits in the fiscal year beginning next month.
Copper stocks deep into red as gold miners surge
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Russia-Belarus potash pact may stage a comeback
Belarus has said it might cooperate with Uralkali, in the…
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Scientists use potash mine to test feasibility of living in Mars
Studies underway at Boulby Underground Laboratory, the UK's deep underground…
