On 1 March 2012, Matthias Grawe (52) took over at the helm of the Division Industry at Voith Turbo. The graduate engineer has been working for Voith Turbo for ten years, most recently as Head of the Product Group Variable-Speed Drives at the location Crailsheim.
Peru's Madre de Dios gold-rich region is losing US$560,000 a day as a result of informal miners' protests happening in the area since Monday, said the country’s president of the regional chamber of commerce, Roman Meza.
As the global warming debate increases in its intensity we find both sides deeply entrenched, hurling accusations and lies at one another in an attempt to gain the upper hand.
MINING.com editor Andrew Topf sits down with mining analyst Mickey Fulp, who topped the site’s list of recommended mining bloggers and newsletter writers.
The communist revolutions in the 20th century sought to nationalize the wealth generated by privately held industries back to the "exploited" workers on whose backs the profits were supposedly derived.America has made the rejection of this idea and its support of free market principles the centerpiece of its economic narrative.
The stock chart is enough to make every mining investor relations professional salivate. A gradual bumping along at around 25c a share, and then, like a sudden lurching of the needle on a seismograph, a massive, electrifying move upward.
Rio Tinto Alcan, the aluminum division of Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) announced today it will close its Lynemouth aluminum smelter in Northumberland, England at the end of March, as part of its aluminum restructure plan.
Over 5,000 informal miners started an indefinite protest in the gold-rich Peru's Madre de Dios region on Monday, demanding the government to revoke a new decree that regularizes small-scale and artisanal operations.
The state of Wyoming recently brought up legislation to launch a study into what the state should do in the event of a complete financial collapse in the country.
Canadian Zinc Corporation (TSX:CZN)(OTCBB:CZICF) (the "Company" or "Canadian Zinc") and Parks Canada are pleased to announce a renewed Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") regarding the operation and development of the Prairie Creek Mine and the management of Nahanni National Park Reserve.