Belo Sun's biggest challenge may not be convincing the indigenous Xingu people or Norte Energia, the owners of the Belo Monte hydroelectric project, that the gold mine is in their best interest.
British Columbia, Canada's most western province, will employ over 16,700 mining professionals in the next 10 years according to a report released Wednesday by the Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR) in partnership with the BC Mining HR Task Force.
Top oil industry executives are asking Ottawa for rules to protect Canadian ownership of major oil sands companies from a flood of foreign investment expected in the sector.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX) was down about 1% this morning as the giant copper producer followed the commodity prices down as a consequence of protests in Spain and Greece renewed fears about the euro zone debt crisis and its drag on global economic growth.
The Czech Republic might soon be creating an artificial sea in northern Bohemia by flooding the massive and partly abandoned brown coal mining pits located in the area with salt water from the Baltic Sea.
