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Canadian NDP leader-in-waiting tones down anti-oilsands rhetoric

Thomas Mulcair, a leading light in Canada's New Democratic Party and the man most likely to become the Opposition Leader when the party votes next Saturday, appears to be moderating his stance on the Alberta oilsands.

Andrew Topf | March 20, 2012 | 9:05 pm

Oyu Tolgoi named one of ’10 Beautiful Places We Could Destroy With Human Drilling’

The widely read Huffington Post in one of its characteristically breathless pieces on the environment on Tuesday calls out Ivanhoe Mines’ Mongolian project.

Frik Els | March 20, 2012 | 8:34 pm

Anglo looking for new coal assets

Anglo American is looking for thermal coal assets in Australia and Indonesia, especially as prices of potential targets have come down, the head of its thermal coal unit said in an interview.

Business Report | March 20, 2012 | 7:20 pm

CIA trying to kill Australian coal industry, says Palmer

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been accused of involvement in coups and insurrections throughout history, but now an Australian mining tycoon is accusing the CIA of trying to sabotage the Australian coal industry.

Andrew Topf | March 20, 2012 | 7:01 pm

Heavy rainfall disrupts coking coal mining in Australia’s Queensland

Heavy rainfall in the last 48 hours has caused significant disruption at several coking coal mines in the Moranbah region of the Bowen Basin, in Australia's Queensland, market sources said Tuesday.

Platts | March 20, 2012 | 6:35 pm

South Africa’s platinum producers angered by ferro-chrome industry’s push for ore duty

The drive by major ferro-chrome producers to get the South African government to impose a $100-per-tonne export tax on chrome ore is meeting resistance.

Fast Markets | March 20, 2012 | 4:55 pm

Billions hacked off mining majors after BHP’s China comments

"The big infrastructure build clearly will come to some end," Ian Ashby, BHP's chief of iron ore said on Tuesday.

Frik Els | March 20, 2012 | 4:54 pm

How to avoid being caught in a common gold scam

Recently, I read an article about how Congo born, Dikembe Mutombo, an all-star NBA defender, was nicely scammed in a fake gold deal.

David Levenstein | March 20, 2012 | 4:47 pm

Enormous container ship has limited choices to unload cargo

The MSC Fabiola, with a carrying capacity of 11,000 containers, docked last week in the Port of Long Beach, one of a few shipping facilities in the U.S. that can handle the enormous new vessels.

Michael Allan McCrae | March 20, 2012 | 4:13 pm

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