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FLSmidth, a global engineering company out of Denmark, is planning a A$267 million acquisition of Ludowici Limited, an Brisbane-based company that manufactures coal centrifuges, vibrating screens and complementary wear resistant products.

Botswana Diamonds recently listed on the Aim Market mining sector and says plans are underway to have a secondary listing on the Botswana Stock Exchange. Executive chairman of Botswana Diamonds John Teeling recently had an interview with proactive...

Over the next twenty years non-fossil fuels, such as nuclear, hydro and renewables, will be the fastest growing parts of the energy sector, according to BP Energy Outlook, a report that was released on Thursday.

Jose Sergio Gabrielli is no longer CEO of Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil company. He was replaced by Maria das Graças Foster, a business leader with close ties to the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.

DiscoveryNews reports that a New York design firm is planning to harvest energy from wind using compression rather having it blow through a blade and turn a turbine.

A vulcanologist at the University of British Columbia may have cracked the riddle on how kimberlite magma, and the valuable diamonds it sometimes carries, pushes its way up from deep underground.

Forty technicians were needed to create a 8.5 mm hole so an endoscope could be lowered inside the stricken Fukushima containament vessel. […]

Bloomberg reports that Ivanplats Ltd., an Africa-focused mining company controlled by billionaire CEO Robert Friedland, may seek up to $1 billion in an IPO.

The share price performance of those non-Chinese rare earth miners closest to production – Molycorp in the US, Australia's Lynas and Great Western Minerals in South Africa – is in stark contrast to what is happening to rare earth oxide prices, some of which have more than halved over the last three months.