Drilling equipment manufacturer Atlas Copco has produced a new 204 page free guide to blasthole drilling incorporating eleven technical articles and nine case studies
Australian junior explorer Discovery Metals is currently working on a bankable feasibility for its very promising Boseto copper-silver project in Botswana
The world's largest copper producer, Chile's Codelco may seek mediation to head off strike at one of its biggest mines, while Xstrata's Altonorte copper smelter blockaded by strikers.
Once again the U.S. mint has had to suspend sales of all its one-ounce gold coins, and some fractional ones too, as its supplies of physical gold cannot meet the demand.
As Barrick's Cortez Hills underground operation ramps up, a possibility exists that the open pit portion of the gold project could be temporarily delayed pending the results of an expanded environmental review.
EPA officials say they will conduct community outreach and explore financial partnerships with other federal agencies before imposing their own financial assurance requirements on hardrock mining.
The coal wars in Appalachia could eventually alter the definitions and regulation of mine waste for both coal and hardrock mining companies, coal mining attorney Robert McCluskey suggests.
exploration programme involving one of Australia's most successful explorers and profitable nickel miners and a struggling junior is showing promise in the growing nickel province in Western Australia's North Eastern Goldfields.
