In a study of pancreatic cancer, Spanish researchers found that patients with high concentrations of nickel and selenium were least likely to suffer from the disease.
Crystallex International received protection today under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act of Canada, and the company will also be delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange next month.
After Chiquita told ForestEthics that it would quit using oil sands derived fuel to truck its bananas, the fruit company is assuring upset truckers that the company, while committed to going green, that will adopt a go slow approach.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, who was appointed by Obama in 2008, says that the Pavillion study in Wyoming that found water contamination from hydraulic fracturing may need another look.
FLSmidth has been awarded a contract worth approximately USD 105m (approximately DKK 600m) from the Mongolian company, Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Group, to supply a greenfield copper concentrator for a mine some 500 kilometres from the capital city Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Tens of thousands of residents from Haimen, China, who protested the construction of a coal-fired power plant earlier this week, are now being arrested.
US-based silver miner Hecla Mining (NYSE:HL) says 2011 production remains within the company's estimates, and it expects to produce nine million ounces of silver despite a spate of mining accidents.
Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM) said it will produce about 150,000 oz less gold in its 2011/12 financial year due to production disruptions at Cadia Valley and Lihir, and lower feed grades and recoveries at Telfer.
South American Silver (TSE:SAC) stock shot up 17% in morning trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange to $1.62 a share after the company announced the findings from its NI 43-101-qualified resource estimate of the company's Escalones copper-gold-silver project in central Chile.
