June 27, 2012
Asbestos found at Rio Tinto’s iron ore mine in Australia
The West Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum is investigating evidence of asbestos contamination at Rio Tinto's West Angelas iron ore mine, in the Pilbara region.
June 27, 2012
The West Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum is investigating evidence of asbestos contamination at Rio Tinto's West Angelas iron ore mine, in the Pilbara region.
June 27, 2012
Kyrgyzstan's parliament has approved a review to the operating license for Centerra Gold, which is developing a major gold mine that accounts for 12% of the Central Asian nation's economy,…
June 27, 2012
Commodities trader Glencore International is studying modifications to its $26 billion bid for miner Xstrata after Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, a key shareholder, unexpectedly opposed the deal's terms.
June 27, 2012
Worldwide reserves of potash could surpass demand by between 59% to100% by 2020, says the latest report published by Rabobank.
June 27, 2012
The total value of the copper, silver, indium and manganese reserves discovered by South Korean company Kores in Bolivia last year, may be worth more than $8 billion.
June 26, 2012
AuruMar, a technical services company conducting marine exploration and mining projects, has purchased Maptek Vulcan 3D modelling software for their marine continental shelf exploration operations.
June 26, 2012
Scientists around the world, including in Canada, are currently developing robots that can anticipate and prevent mining accidents, such as the dramatic entrapment of 33 Chilean miners in the Atacama…
June 26, 2012
British scientists have discovered that adding small amounts of nanodiamonds - pieces of carbon less than a ten-thousandth of the diameter of a human hair - make powder detergent much…
June 26, 2012
Canadian Rockwell Diamonds announced its carat production for the first quarter of this year improved by 74% to 6116 carats from the same period last year.
June 26, 2012
Scio Diamond Technology announced today that the first full production run using the company's S3532 technology on five diamond growing reactors was extremely successful. The five growers ran an average…
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