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  • BHP Billiton dropping its takeover bid for Rio Tinto. Billiton ...
    MERGER: BHP Billiton withdraws offer for Rio Tinto

    AUSTRALIA — Heightened risk within the mining industry has BHP Billiton dropping its takeover bid for Rio Tinto. Billiton has reportedly spent US$450 million toward the merger. BHP Billiton issued ...

    Canadian Mining Journal - 2 days, 21 hours ago
  • Taken another hit, with about 60 more jobs going at ...
    Another 60 mining jobs lost on Coast

    THE struggling mining industry has taken another hit, with about 60 more jobs going at two sites. OZ Minerals confirmed yesterday about 35 Barminco contract workers would lose jobs at ...

    The Advocate - 5 days, 5 hours ago
  • Come to the point where everyone is putting the blinders ...
    A Tale of Mining Woe

    "Rio could easily fall $20 today after BHP canned its takeover bid. But that's not what investors should take from this. It's a sign of the times. The mining industry ...

    The Daily Reckoning - 1 week ago
  • Already railing against the Rudd government’s draft workplace laws, even ...
    Mining industry rails against new draft IR laws

    The mining industry is already railing against the Rudd government’s draft workplace laws, even though parliament has yet to see the legislation. Miners say the legislation is more about resuscitatin

    The West Australian - business - 1 week, 1 day ago
  • Welcomed the move saying it will help boost the economy, ...
    WA opens up to expanded uranium mining

    As many as eight new uranium mines have been pinpointed for Western Australia after the Barnett Government lifted a long time ban on uranium mining. The uranium mining industry has ...

    AM - 2 weeks, 1 day ago
  • Still the most important export earning sector of the Australian ...
    Minerals still Australia's best earners

    The mining industry is still the most important export earning sector of the Australian economy, and could continue to be for many decades, research has found.

    ScienceAlert - Latest Stories - 2 weeks, 3 days ago
  • Readying itself for more falls in global commodity prices
    Mining industry battens down

    The Tasmanian Minerals Council says the state's mining industry is readying itself for more falls in global commodity prices.

    ABC News mining - 3 weeks ago
3 hours, 54 minutes ago BHP Billiton Approves North West CWLH Redevelopment Project
Australian mining major BHP Billiton has announced approval for the North West Shelf Cossack, Wanaea, Lambert, Hermes redevelopment project for a capital investment of $245 million as BHP Billiton's share. ...
iStock Analyst - 1:50 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
7 hours, 30 minutes ago Broker tips: BHP, Rio, Tesco, Shaftesbury
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Citigroup has resumed coverage of mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, both of which it regards as worth buying. The US bank believes the decision by ...
ShareCast - 10:13 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
BHP Billiton Continues $12 Billion in Projects and Adheres to Existing Business Strategies Entering 2009, an Industrial Info News Alert
SUGAR LAND, TX--(Marketwire - December 3, 2008) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Despite the economic meltdown and cost pressures facing companies worldwide, mining ...
marketwire - 8:42 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
BHP Billiton: Samancor to cut manganese production
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Mining giant BHP Billiton said Wednesday that it intends to temporarily cut manganese production at its 60% owned Samancor operation due to weak market conditions. The cuts ...
Market Watch Market Pulse - 5:31 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
BHP scales down on Groote Eylandt
The mining company BHP Billiton has announced it's reducing its global manganese ore production by 25%.
ABC News manufacturing - 3:15 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
BHP cuts production at Samancor
Mining giant BHP Billiton will cut manganese production at its majority owned Samancor operation in South Africa due to weak market conditions for the metal. The cuts are expected to ...
The West Australian - business - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
BHP Withdraws From Mwana Diamond Joint Venture in DRC (Update1)
By Alistair Holloway and Thomas Biesheuvel Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s largest mining company, withdrew from a diamond exploration joint venture in the Democratic Republic ...
Bloomberg - 4:37 a.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
1 day, 11 hours ago BHP awards A$50 million construction project to Macmahon
Macmahon has been awarded a A$50 million contract for construction work at Port Hedland, in Western Australia, by diversified mining giant, BHP Billiton Iron Ore. The contract formed part of ...
Dredging News Online - 6:28 p.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
BHP BILLITON WITHDRAWS FROM SOUTHERNERA AND GRAVITY AGREEMENTS
BHP Billiton World Exploration Inc has given Mwana Africa PLC notice of the mining giant's withdrawal from the kimberlite diamond exploration agreement entered into between BHP Billiton and ...
DIB Online - 6:23 p.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic
<!-- pageType= magazinewide slug= ff_diamonds section= science subsection= planetearth headline= How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic authorName= Carl Hoffman creditType= photo credit= Andrew Hetherington ...
Wired: Science - 3 p.m. Tuesday 2nd December 2008
2 days, 21 hours ago MERGER: BHP Billiton withdraws offer for Rio Tinto
AUSTRALIA — Heightened risk within the mining industry has BHP Billiton dropping its takeover bid for Rio Tinto. Billiton has reportedly spent US$450 million toward the merger. BHP Billiton issued ...
Canadian Mining Journal - 8:02 a.m. Monday 1st December 2008
3 days, 11 hours ago Nationals put mining ahead of farmers
The Australian Greens are appalled that the Nationals have buckled to mining industry pressure to allow mining exploration under prime farming land without a water sustainability study. Greens Leader Senator ...
Greens MPs - 5:58 p.m. Sunday 30th November 2008
BHP pulls out of Rio Tinto bid
BHP Billiton's decision this week to bail out of its Rio Tinto bid is, among other things, a statement by BHP that it has changed about the prospects for commodities, ...
Inside Business - 12:31 p.m. Sunday 30th November 2008
5 days, 6 hours ago Who's sorry now? Not Kloppers
"It was not an easy decision. In fact, it was a tough decision." With those simple words BHP Billiton chief executive Marius Kloppers brought the curtain down on the once ...
The Age - 11 p.m. Friday 28th November 2008
BHP Still Confident,
BHP Billiton says it is still better placed than any other major miner to withstand the global financial and commodities markets turmoil. It still thinks the Rio Tinto bid was ...
ASX Newbie - 1:03 p.m. Friday 28th November 2008

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