Global aluminum supplier Norsk Hydro yesterday announced plans to cut the capacity of its Australian New South Wales-based Kurri Kurri smelter by 33 percent citing low metal prices as the main reason for its decision.
US Labor Department figures released on Wednesday show the country's mining sector added more jobs in 2011 than at any other period since the early 1980s.
The richest woman in the world, Gina Rinehart, on Tuesday handed her daughter Ginia (sic) directorships of three companies, including Hancock Prospecting which controls her $10 billion empire. Ginia who is 25 years old is the only one of Rinehart's four children who are not currently suing her in court in a bitter dispute over control of the family fortune.
Thanks to nzsucks for consulting his/her inner skeptic when reading about the mining jobs boom in Australia.
A proposed new coal mine in Queensland is so massive it is likely to do more harm to the local economy than good.
Job seekers in the Australian mining and construction industry were likely to benefit from a favourable hiring climate in the first quarter of 2012, said recruitment solutions provider Manpower.
Reuters reported that Mr Vladimir Putin PM of Russia facing a wave of voter outrage as he prepares a bid to return to the Kremlin intervened to prevent an archaic 67 year old aluminum smelter with 3,500 workers from closure. Mr Putin was informed at a...
The latest annual snapshot of the New South Wales mining industry re-affirms the Hunter Valley's status as the state's engine room.
Fraser Alexander was a foreman on a mine in South Africa in the early 1900s. He was in charge of building the sand and rock dumps.
Share this page Since 2009, the U.S. has been averaging a gain of nearly 7,000 mining jobs a month -- most of those in the upper Midwest. While mining can be a boom and bust industry, the prospect of thousands of new jobs has cities willing to take a...