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A miner’s life: Big money, bad habits

Xstrata is paying nearly a million dollars into a program to improve the wellbeing of retired and injured miners.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 28, 2012 | 8:12 pm

OZ Minerals inks $90 million deal for copper-moly mine in Chile

Australian copper producer OZ Minerals has struck a deal with Canada's International PBX Ventures for a 90% interest in the Copaquire copper-molybdenum property in Chile.

Andrew Topf | May 28, 2012 | 5:33 pm

Australian mining community outraged by government’s decision to grant first ever right to hire foreign workers

Australia’s decision to grant first ever right to hire foreign workers at the Roy Hill project in the Pilbara on Friday has sparked heated critics by local unions and the mining community.

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 28, 2012 | 1:16 pm

Granted first ever right to hire foreign workers Friday. Saturday shuns 14,000 locals queuing at jobs expo

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting which is hiring 1,700 foreign workers for the Roy Hill iron mine were absent from the Australian mining association job fair in Perth and so were the $9.8 billion project's main contractors.

Frik Els | May 27, 2012 | 6:22 pm

Aussie travel company and main airlines cash in on mining boom

Hoping to cash on the booming mining industry in Australia and the need for foreign workers, Corporate Travel Management (CTM) has announced a step into Australia’s growing mining industry with its new brand offering, Resource Travel Management (RTM).

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 25, 2012 | 7:31 pm

Foreign workers to relieve labour shortage in Australia’s mining industry

Australia’s government announced Friday it will allow a new mine to hire about 1,700 foreign workers to alleviate a labour shortage threatening the resources boom.

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 25, 2012 | 4:13 pm

Rio Tinto awards over $1 billion in Aboriginal joint venture and direct business contracts for Pilbara expansions

More than $1 billion in both Aboriginal joint venture and direct business contracts for Rio Tinto's Pilbara expansion projects have now been awarded over the last two years. The milestone was reached with the announcement of a $55 million earthworks...

Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide | May 24, 2012 | 9:03 pm

Australian miners should seek business opportunities in Latin America: Government

Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, called local mining companies to look at Latin America as a business destination, as the region was emerging as an important economic powerhouse, hungry for Australian investment.

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 23, 2012 | 12:21 pm

Olympic Dam Taskforce CEO to doubters: We’re planning 10,000-strong village, already building airstrip for 737s

The copper-uranium-gold-silver project has a 100 year mining life, so a glitch this year was unlikely to sway a company that thinks well ahead, the CEO of the Olympic Dam Taskforce said Tuesday.

Frik Els | May 22, 2012 | 9:03 pm

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