Oil sands school bus: Alberta is picking up the tab for teacher site tours
Teachers are being offered all-paid, six-day field trips to experience the Alberta oil sands.
Teachers are being offered all-paid, six-day field trips to experience the Alberta oil sands.
Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the 20thcentury. The new and long-term upward trend began with most commodities in late 1990s and already lasts nearly 15 years. During this time, most commodity prices manifold strongly.
Coalspur Mines Limited ("Coalspur" or "Company") (ASX: CPL, TSX: CPT) is pleased to announce an initial Coal Resource estimate on the recently acquired11 Vista Extension, comprising 173.7 million tonnes ("Mt") in the Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource categories and 969.3Mt in the Inferred Mineral Resource category.
Renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo will halt the export of so-called conflict-free minerals from the country's eastern provinces, according to Bloomberg:
Voith Turbo recently announced it has named Roland Hoet as director of Mining and Metals, a group within Voith Turbo’s Industry division.
The rare earths business isn't unlike a Formula One race, according to Carolyn Dennis, vice-president and senior analyst with Dundee Capital Markets.
The High Court of Malaysia today rejected Australian miner Lynas Corp’s (ASX:LYC) application for an injunction against pressure groups that oppose the company’s rare earth plant (LAMP), informs The Malaysian Insider.
The measured and indicated mineral resource estimate totals 1,297,529,000 tonnes with an average grade of 19.32 % KCl, representing approximately 250 million tonnes of KCl.
There has been a significant paradigm shift in public activism in Canada and a growing hostility toward mining and dogmatic opposition by environmentalists and social action groups toward virtually all mining and energy projects.
Oleg Deripaska, CEO of Basic Element and UC RUSAL and President of En+ Group, and Zhang Guoqing, President of China North Industries Corporation, signed a framework agreement on strategic cooperation providing for the joint implementation of projects in the engineering, mining and metal sectors.