Canada’s asbestos industry on its way out
LAB Chrysotile Inc., one of the two remaining Quebec’s asbestos miners, has filed for bankruptcy because of high fixed costs and sharply declining revenues.
LAB Chrysotile Inc., one of the two remaining Quebec’s asbestos miners, has filed for bankruptcy because of high fixed costs and sharply declining revenues.
Doug, a lot of readers have been asking for guidance on how to know when it's time to exit center stage and hunker down in some safe place.
Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas, four out of five people are completely without power.
What does the new year hold for mining? If we truly knew, we would grow rich; we would buy and sell at the right time; and we would buy the right stock in the right commodities just before the price rose.
January 3rd, 2011 -- Lithium Americas Corp. (TSX:LAC)(OTCQX:LHMAF) ("Lithium Americas" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has secured long term land use agreements (the "Agreements") with five aboriginal communities located on the Cauchari-Olaroz properties.
China's tight grip on rare earth elements supply may loosen as other deposits around the world come to fruition in 2012.
December saw several new reports about the earthquake- and tsunami-induced Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, so we thought it might be useful to assess what these new reports add to our understanding of the tragedy.
Mining is fueled by investors and the lure of the next lucky strike. Here are some of the investment writers we like to follow, subscriber-based newsletter writers, as well as bloggers, speakers and news publications.
According to faulty interpretations of Mayan calendars, 2012 is supposed to bring with it the demise of humanity.
Canadian locomotive maker Electro-Motive, owned by Caterpillar Inc., began the New Year by shutting out hundreds of workers at its plant in London, Ontario.