It will be 12 to 18 months before there will even be any signs of a recovery in the eastern US coal sector says Monty Boyd, a major Caterpillar supplier for the region.
1,000 residents of Jangas, a district located in Huaraz in the Ancash region of Peru, are demanding that Barrick leave the region after police killed a resident who held demonstrations against the company.
After a tough week Belo Sun is holding onto 36% gains since the start of the year indicating the confidence the market has that the investigation into its Brazilian gold project is just a temporary hiccup.
When Leily Omoumi, a gold analyst with Scotiabank in Toronto, turns her engineer's eye on a mining company, she can translate insight into profits for investors.
Custom seizures of gold are up 50% with one of the latest cases a father and daughter arrested trying to squirrel out 50kg of the metal in unmarked ingots.
Researchers in the University of York' s Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence and the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) are giving a whole new meaning to the concept of “green mining,” as they said Friday they will develop a technique called "phyto-mining," which uses plants to extract platinum group metals (PGM) discarded during mine processing.
BMT WBM, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has announced that it has secured a major contract with Codelco, the Chilean state owned copper mining company to deliver its unique machine health, production and payload management system. The Pulse TerraMetrix RS will be deployed at Codelco’s Mina Chuquicamata situated in north Chile.
