Search Results
Several Mining Companies Hold Plans New Mines Onstream
The global financial crisis and sharp falls in metals prices have forced several companies to abandon or put on hold their plans to bring new mines onstream.
Global Mining Companies Plans Expansions Iron Ore Mine Output
Global iron ore prices are set to decline sharply in 2009 as demand for the steelmaking ingredient shrinks dramatically as a result of deepening world economic recession.
Guinea and Chinese Discuss Mining Exploration and Infrastructure Investment
Guinea and China are discussing a deal which could see billions of dollars of Chinese investment in return for mining rights in the West African country, which has a third of the world’s bauxite, a Guinean minister said.
A delegation including officials from the Chinese Development Bank recently spent a week in Guinea and is due [...]
Mining Company Exploration : Rio Tinto profits slip as costs bite
Mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd has posted a 14.3 per cent drop in first half net profit, after cost pressures took a toll on its business.
Net profit for the six months ended June 30 slipped to $US3.523 billion ($A4.12 billion).
Underlying earnings also slipped, by 5.9 per cent to $US3.529 billion ($A4.13 billion), missing the consensus [...]
LNG projects need close government scrutiny
Utilisation of Papua New Guinea’s massive gas resources has entered a critical phase following the cancellation early this year of the project to pipe natural gas to Australia.
As indicated in previous columns much attention needs to be given by the government to rational and early development of an liquefied natural gas project as the only [...]
World’s mining firms dig in perilous terrain
The world’s biggest mining companies, hungry for metals increasingly tapped out in developed countries, are plunging into risky new terrain. Mining executives are setting up operations in some of the most violent, politically turbulent places, like the Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine Phelps Dodge approved here in December.
Expatriate homes for the Tenke staff have [...]
Tension in Bolivia, Africa to lift metals
Copper prices were buoyed on Friday by the prospect of a strike at a Peruvian mine, while Bolivia’s leftist president Evo Morales has put a shudder through the mining industry by nationalising Glencore’s tin, zinc and lead operations there.
The trend for governments to take advantage of the windfall profits being generated by miners is continuing, [...]
Indonesia’s Riches Draw China, India
When it comes to energy and industrial commodities, China and India are Asia’s fiercest competitors. For the last couple of years, both Chinese and Indian companies have done deals across the globe — from Latin America to Africa — to win oil exploration rights or secure long-term raw material contracts.
Now they have set their sights [...]
China mixes rice and neo-colonialism
When China, one of the world’s most corrupt countries, starts dishing out tens of billions of US dollars in aid and business contracts in Africa, the world’s most corrupt continent, alarm bells go off in Washington and other Western capitals. The fact that China turns a blind eye to widespread human-rights abuses on the continent [...]
