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Mining Exploration and Producer Companies Increase Profit and Added Cost
These are boom times for mining companies but the big profits are being eaten into not only by spiraling energy costs but suddenly rising prices for the explosives used to blast into the rocks.
It’s all because of the high price of natural gas, which when converted into ammonia is used to produce ammonium nitrate, [...]
New ship oil spill emergency
JUST one week after the Pasha Bulker salvage operation, Newcastle emergency workers were again on high alert after an oil spill on a cargo ship yesterday.
Authorities scrambled to prevent an explosion after a rupture in a ship’s crane sent more than 150 litres of oil spilling on to about 30 bags of ammonium nitrate, used [...]
