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Data Mining for E-Tail Gold
“Tracking to a merchant is as important as the instruments on a plane to a pilot,” Tom Bianco, CEO of Centripetal Management, which runs several niche e-commerce Web sites such as eGiftBasketsToGo.com and AtlantaCarsInc.com, told the E-Commerce Times. “If you are not tracking, you are flying blind,” he added.
They’re invisible to most online shoppers, but [...]
Namibia begins to look as if its resource future is in uranium mining
The future of mining in Namibia now points to uranium. With over 20 mining entities prospecting and exploring for the highly-priced mineral and with the announcement by ASX-quoted West Australian Metals (WME) last week of the discovery of uranium deposits at its Marenica Project, a fourth producing uranium mine may be on the horizon for [...]
BHP, Minara Halt Output at Australian Nickel Mines
BHP Billiton Ltd. and Minara Resources Ltd., Australia’s two largest nickel producers, halted output at mines after heavy rain, which may add to supply shortages that have driven prices to a 19-year high.
Pit operations at the mines in BHP’s Nickel West division, the third-largest producer of nickel in concentrate, in Western Australia have halted, Emma [...]
Rapu-Rapu, make or break for mining
Mining boosters insist Filipinos are squandering valuable opportunities for sustainable development by giving companies engaged in this highly controversial extractive industry a hard time.
Litigation and street protests merely stall the discovery of the wealth lying beneath our feet, they say. What fools Filipinos are for passing up this chance at progress!
Iran Energy Program : Power and the people
Iran says it wants nuclear energy to fuel its economy. The US says it wants to build an ‘Islamic bomb’. But what do Iranians think about the deepening crisis? Given rare access, Simon Tisdall spoke to people on the streets of Tehran – and to the men in charge of the country’s nuclear programme.
Tensions between [...]
More power shifts to countries with oil reserves
There is more to today’s oil crunch than temporary jolts to supply and demand. What is also roiling the energy world is an enduring shift in the balance of power between the fuel-guzzling West and oil-rich developing countries.
Since World War II, the industrialized world has relied on stable and affordable supplies of crude to fuel [...]
