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BHP Plans Strategies To Keep Rio Tinto Asset Deal
BHP would prefer to limit any iron ore divestments to smaller mines in Brazil and Canada. It is likely to fight hard to keep the BHP and Rio assets in the Pilbara that are expected to account for most of the cost savings linked with the merger.
But it is possible the commission might not approve [...]
Mining Sector Planning Zimbawe Government
While the world waits for news about the outcome of Zimbabwe’s elections, Zimbabwean newspapers at the weekend reported that Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF planned to seize foreign-owned mines to win over votes.
Across the front page of The Zimbabwean yesterday were splashed headlines suggesting that Mugabe had set his sights on foreign-owned mines after running “out of [...]
Mining Employer Accident in China ate paper
ELEVEN Chinese miners trapped underground for nearly six days by a tunnel collapse ate paper and chewed on a boiled leather belt to stay alive.
The miners were pulled out alive from the illegal iron and gold mine in northern China early yesterday, the Beijing News said, from the world’s deadliest mines, after a tunnel collapsed [...]
Trapped China miners ate paper, belt to survive
Eleven Chinese miners trapped underground for nearly six days by a tunnel collapse ate paper and chewed on a boiled leather belt to stay alive, local media said on Monday.
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The miners were pulled out alive from the illegal iron and gold mine in northern China early on Sunday, the Beijing News said, [...]
Mining for Human Lives : World’s growing use of coal carries high cost in human lives
Digging coal deep underground, Luo Xianglai learned to listen hard to the sounds the rocks made when struck with his pickax.
A dull thud usually meant solid rock and safety. A whistling noise signalled an impending cave-in.
“Usually you could tell it was coming,” said Luo, a squat 33-year-old with broad shoulders, a buzz cut and a [...]
Senators Questions Government’s Mine Safety Agency in Wake of Deadly Utah Accident
Senators on Wednesday demanded to know whether President Bush’s mine safety chief could have done more to prevent a deadly coal mine collapse in Utah.
“This Congress has given the administration the resources and technology it needs” to make mines safer, said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees mine safety.
“Well, [...]
Mining To Slow Slowly Over Next Two Years
Here’s some good news for the big end of the market where resources are still booming. Leading economic forecaster and industry analyst BIS Shrapnel sees the current boom lasting through until the end of 2008.
It said yesterday that with work in the pipeline and more projects still to start, “investment is forecast to rise another [...]
Uranium interest from energy crunch bodes well for Wyoming
The global energy crunch has meant growing demand for Wyoming’s oil, gas and coal, but the state is also seeing a major resurgence of interest in its plentiful supply of uranium.
Skyrocketing uranium prices over the past three years have sent companies scrambling to explore new claims, including several in Wyoming, which leads the nation in [...]
