HARARE (AFP) - International diamond watchdog the Kimberley Process (KP) has certified Zimbabwe's Diamond Mining Company to sell gems from the violence-tainted Marange fields, state media reported on Sunday.The firm, a joint venture between the Zimbabw...
Rio Tinto's Managing Director of Iron Ore David Joyce says global iron ore production will need to increase by 100 million tonnes a year over the next eight years to meet demand.
Rescue workers on Tuesday saved 19 miners from a flooded Chinese mine where they had been trapped for a week, state media said, in a rare good-news story for an industry in which thousands die each year.The state CCTV television network
Three miners trapped for more than four days in a flooded mine shaft in northeast China were rescued Saturday as authorities battled to reach another 23 workers still underground, state media said.
The company proposing to expand a bauxite mine in Cape York in far north Queensland says Cairns is in a good position to provide a 300-strong workforce during the construction phase.
The world's biggest mining company will expand its manganese operation at Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory.BHP Billiton announced the $254 million expansion of the GEMCO mine in a statement this morning.
The company says this expansion will increase production from 4.2 to 4.8 million tonnes of ore a year.
The federal government's carbon tax will jeopardise the reliability of Victoria's power supply, drive energy prices higher and cost jobs, the state government says.Premier Ted Baillieu said the tax was a direct threat to the state's electricity supplies,
Local shares have closed lower, dragged down by losses in Australian mining giant BHP Billiton.The market also had a weak lead from overseas markets, after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke deflated investors' stimulus hopes.The All Ordinaries
