January 21, 2012

Electro-Motive lockout draws thousands of protesters

Thousands of protesters gathered at a London park Saturday in a massive show of support for more than 400 locked-out workers of […]

January 21, 2012

Vale’s Mozambican coal operation starts exports but encounters protest

Brazilian major mining group Vale’s Moatize mine in the Tete province of Mozambique produced 620 000 t of coal last year. This was recently revealed by Mozambican Prime Minister Aires…

January 21, 2012

Who Owns Our Oil Sands? Foreign corporations stake their claims to our resources

Foreign corporations, some controlled by national governments, have been using their economic clout to buy into Alberta's oil sands and take control of our natural resources. U.S., French, British, Chinese,…

January 21, 2012

BHP Billiton proposal for construction workforce camp to be revised

At a Special Council Meeting, Town of Port Hedland Council resolved to renegotiate with BHP Billition Iron Ore on its development proposal after considering the submissions received from residents and…

January 21, 2012

Proposed Tucson copper mine hits EPA roadblock

_ TUCSON -- The Environmental Protection Agency says it's not ready to recommend approval of a federal permit for a planned copper mine southeast of Tucson because of water concerns.…

January 21, 2012

Cabinet Approves Establishment Coal Power Plant In Sampoor

The government has decided to proceed with the establishment of a thermal power plant at Sampoor in Trincomalee district of the Eastern province. Acting on a proposal made by Economic…

January 21, 2012

Unraveling the mystery of how diamonds travel to the earth’s surface

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…

January 21, 2012

A look inside the Fukushima containment vessel

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

January 21, 2012

The how, when and why of gold confiscation by governments

In another article on gold confiscation, Julian Phillips reckons that this could become a reality as the decline in currency confidence makes such action inevitable.

January 20, 2012

Randgold’s new gold mine overcomes obstacles

Randgold Resources' new gold mine at Tongon in Cote d'Ivoire which was nurtured as a project through a civil war and then successfully commissioned in the final quarter of 2010…