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Highlights this month
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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 - 3 days, 1 hour ago
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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, 9 hours ago
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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
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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
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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, 2 days ago
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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
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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, 1 day ago
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Companies in this story
BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-L), the world’s largest mining company, has approved a capacity expansion at its iron ore mining operations in Western Australia, which will raise production by 50 million ...
The Northern Miner - 8 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
The Northern Miner - 8 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
Oceana Gold mothballs project
New Zealand's biggest gold miner is effectively mothballing its huge gold-copper mining site at Didipio in the northern Philippines province of Nueva Vizcaya. "The deterioration of global economic ...
tvnz.co.nz - 7:52 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
tvnz.co.nz - 7:52 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
Caroona group applauds Federal action
THE Caroona Coal Action Group has welcomed the announcement that the Federal Government would commit funding towards a water study in the region. Landholders in the Caroona area are demanding ...
Northern Daily Leader - 7:42 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
Northern Daily Leader - 7:42 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
Japan Antitrust Regulator Ends BHP-Rio Probe
Tokyo, Dec. 3 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Fair Trade Commission has ended its antitrust investigation of Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton's bid for rival Rio Tinto, FTC Secretary-General Takahide Matsuyama said Wednesday. ...
iStock Analyst - 6:48 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
iStock Analyst - 6:48 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
Mining jobs in Colorado and California
There are still good jobs going begging in the mining industry. The best place to find them is at CareerMine. Seems that in spite of no dividend, Freeport-McMoran is looking ...
I THINK MINING - 6:30 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
I THINK MINING - 6:30 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
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
Bloomberg - 3:23 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
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
iStock Analyst - 1:50 a.m. Thursday 4th December 2008
9 hours, 53 minutes ago
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
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
Platinum today - 11:10 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
Mining mx - 10:39 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
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
Bloomberg - 9:23 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
marketwire - 8:42 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Fire and Safety Australia discuss safety measures to prevent confined space fatalities
According to Steven McLeod, Managing Director, Fire and Safety Australia, within the mining industry workers regularly enter confined spaces such as furnaces, bag-houses, ore bins, chutes and grinding mills in ...
Ferret Product - 8 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Ferret Product - 8 p.m. Wednesday 3rd December 2008
