Able-bodied welfare recipients in southern British Columbia will receive moving and training assistance so they can fill jobs in Northern B.C.

The Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining in the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland has released a study that proposes greater involvement of women in the mining industry, reports the Roxby Downs Sun.

It said, “the largest, mostly untapped, labour pool available to the industry is women.”

Mining Weekly: Though efforts are being made to remedy the shortage of engineers in the South African coal industry, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Mining Engineering head Professor Fred Cawood says that not enough is being done to meet demand for skilled technicians and artisans.

“This challenge will not be sorted out unless significant investment is made into further education and training colleges,” says Cawood.

Thousands of informal miners suspended their indefinite protest in the gold-rich Peru’s Madre de Dios region after three gold miners were killed in clashes with police yesterday.

State-run Korea Resources Corp. (KORES) is planning to invest at least US$532 million (600 billion won) in mining projects abroad this yea, particularly in the coal sector of Indonesia and North America, reports Bloomberg.

Canada’s North will be leading the country in economic growth over the next two years as a boom in mining projects takes hold, says the Conference Board of Canada’s Territorial Outlook-Winter 2012 study, reports CBC.

Kobe Steel, Ltd. announces that it reached agreement with trading firm Sojitz Corporation to take a 33% equity share in Sojitz Resources & Technology Pty Ltd, currently a 100% owned subsidiary of Sojitz Corporation.

Zinc fundamentals in China look promising according to a new report sourced by Intierra.

CEOs who are male and single are bigger risk takers and their company's stock is more volatile, according to a study by the University of Pennsylvania.