Special Metals Corp. announced this weekend that it will relocate operations from Rockford, Ill., to Elkhart, Ind., creating up to 100 new jobs by 2014. The inventor and producer of high-nickel, high-performance engineering alloys will move its A-1
An electronics recycling company in Badin, Washington was talking Saturday to applicants for jobs at a facility that could employ as many as 200 people. A building that once was part of Alcoa's aluminum smelting operation is being upgraded to house an outpost of Electronic Recyclers International, said company president John Shegerian. "We use manual labor to take the screens out of the machines, and then start segregating the material," Shegerian said. "Then the carcasses all go into the shredding machine." He said the materials are then sold to manufacturers, which use the plastic, aluminum and copper to make new products. The only thing left to dispose of is a little dust. It's a process Shegerian calls "urban mining."
Recruiters in Western Australia are seeing a steady flow of people heading into the state in search of lucrative jobs in the mining industry, but they need to be realistic about the salaries they can receive and the training they need, Perth Now reports.
Recruitment agencies told The Sunday Times that highly skilled positions, such as heavy diesel fitters, drillers and boilermakers, were in shortest supply and workers with experience in most areas of the resources industry were highly sought after. Hays regional director Simon Winfield said people often thought they could get jobs on mines without any qualifications and were "misguided" about salaries.
The Street reported that gold prices increased and silver was flat following a poor report on US jobs. The market news is quoted as saying: Before the jobs number, the metals had been in wait and see mode. After a powerful three day rally, gold and silver prices are up 3.2% and 8%, respectively, and some investors were taking profits.
Gold futures tacked on $11 an ounce Friday as weak U.S. employment data for June sent investors scurrying for an alternative to stocks and other risky assets, helping gold prices score a weekly gain of 4%.
* Bullish on oil, especially H2 2011 - Morgan Stanley * U.S. crude, product stocks fell last week - API * Coming up: EIA oil stocks data, 11 a.m. EDT Thursday NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) - U.S. crude futures fell on Thursday ahead of a government report
The Greens' push to shut down the coal industry could severely undermine the nation's economy and sacrifice 200,000 jobs, new economic modelling warns. As the party takes to Federal Parliament today with unprecedented numbers and wielding the balance of power in the Senate, fresh research finds that leader Bob Brown's policy to phase out coal mining would slash GDP by up to $36 billion a year.
In response to the recent law passed by the Mongolian government limiting the number of foreign workers used in Mongolian mining projects, mining companies have begun training Mongolians for driving positions at local mines, UB Post reports.
41 companies of Umnugobi, Dornogobi provinces took part in research that studied the number of workers needed and salary proposals. These companies employ 1,189 Mongolian and 1,500 Chinese drivers at the moment. However, they reported that with the new law they will need 1500 additional Mongolian drivers. Employers pay 800,000MNT as a salary with potential for employees to earn bonuses.
A report released this week suggests that US federal regulation of coal combustion residuals, or coal ash, currently being considered by the Environmental Protection Agency would result in as many as 316,000 lost jobs and as much as $110bn in lost economic activity over a 20-year period. Power-generating coal is coming under fire from many quarters including Australia where a proposed carbon tax in 2012 could see coal mining profits fall and lead to thousands of job losses. This despite a new report showing that worldwide coal consumption is at its highest relative to other sources in 40 years.
When the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) released its sixth-annual oilsands update in May, it highlighted the bright investment future of the industry.