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Highlights this month
  • 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
2 hours, 35 minutes ago Rio Tinto Drops After ABN Amro Cuts Profit Estimate (Update3)
By Rebecca Keenan and Brett Foley Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Rio Tinto Group, the world’s third- largest mining company, dropped to a five-year low in London trading after ABN Amro ...
Bloomberg - 3:23 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
South African Equities: BHP Billiton, FirstRand, MTN, Sanlam
By Janice Kew The following are among the most active stocks in the South African market today. Symbols are in parentheses. BHP Billiton Ltd. (BIL SJ), the world’s biggest mining ...
Bloomberg - 3:09 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
Rio Tinto denies rights issue talk
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Mining giant Rio Tinto has denied rumours it is planning a huge rights issue, but its shares still plunged over 13% at one stage as investors remained ...
ShareCast - 1:53 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
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
EU may have trumped downturn to kill BHP-Rio deal
By Eric Onstad - Analysis LONDON (Reuters) - The tanking world economy got the most blame when BHP Billiton (BLT.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) dropped its $66 billion bid ...
Reuters - 1:32 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
6 hours, 36 minutes ago South African Stocks: BHP Billiton, Anglo Platinum, Telkom
By Janice Kew Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index fell for a fourth day, losing 188.32, or 1 percent, to 19,525.63 at 3:18 pm in ...
Bloomberg - 11:23 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Boart Longyear (BLY) 22c
LONG after the financial world imploded, the mining services story -- the one about the Chinese laundries making the real money in the gold rush -- was still compelling. The ...
The Australian : Travel - 11:12 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Zimplats halts open-pit platinum mining in Zimbabwe
Platinum miner Zimplats Holdings confirmed yesterday (2nd December) that it has closed open-pit mining at its Zimbabwe operation due to the current depressed market conditions. The Australia ...
Platinum today - 11:10 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Major pressure for miners
BHP Billiton has made its first significant production cut in the face of the global financial crisis, as the commodities bust starts to hurt the big miners.
Herald Sun - 11 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
BHP prepares for manganese bust
BHP Billiton chief executive Marius Kloppers has followed up the tip he dropped last week that Chinese steel production had collapsed by 17 per cent year-on-year by slashing BHP's small ...
The Age - 10:52 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
BHP to slash manganese ore output by 37.5%
BHP BILLITON - until now the least willing of the big miners to make production cuts - will slash its manganese ore production by 37.5 per cent for the rest ...
Sydney Morning Herald Business - 10:49 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Zimplats warns of tough times, stops opencast ops
[miningmx.com] -- IMPALA Platinum’s subsidiary Zimplats stopped opencast mining operations because of low metal prices and it warned of further negative repercussions if prices for platinum group ...
Mining mx - 10:39 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
GVK Oil & Gas-BHP Billiton consortium secures 7 blocks
GVK Power & Infrastructure announced that the ministry of petroleum & natural gas has awarded seven offshore deep water blocks to the consortium of BHP Billiton Petroleum International and GVK ...
myiris - 10:29 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
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
Rio Tinto Drops After ABN Amro Cuts Profit Forecast (Update2)
By Rebecca Keenan and Brett Foley Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Rio Tinto Group, the world’s third- largest mining company, dropped to the lowest in five years in London trading after ...
Bloomberg - 9:23 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008

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