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Striking platinum miners, back, take part in a march to the Rustenburg, South Africa, police station, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012 to protest the heavy handed way the police are cracking down on strikers who have been off work since early last month.
(photo: AP / Denis Farrell)
When Will LP and Zuma Stop Mining Miners?
WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | It was Francis Galton I thought of when Lonmin Platinum (LP) and Jacob Zuma, South Africa's President, ordered hundreds of heavily armed police to raid shacks in LP's shanty towns and arrest striking miners and union activists. In "The Art of Travel,...
South African company fires 12,000 striking miners
CNN
October 5, 2012 -- Updated 1900 GMT (0300 HKT) | Striking mine workers gather outside the Anglo American Mine on October 5, 2012 in Rustenburg, South Africa. | (CNN) -- South African mining giant Anglo-American Platinum said Friday that it has fired ...
Platinum and metal price rises as South Africa's miners are on strike
The Examiner
Related topics | Global Marketsmetalssouth africaglobal economy | Advertisement | Platinum rose more than 3% on Friday. Base metals prices are up today for copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, lead, tin, ferrochrome and chrome ore. | The Anglo American Pl...
Miners have to trek far for work in Thunder Bay region
CBC
| People looking for jobs in the mining sector in the northwest should be prepared to commute, according to a study that shows a higher percentage of the region's mining workforce has to travel more than mine workers in other parts of Ontario.Madge R...
Platinum producer fires striking SAfrican miners
Palm Beach Post
| Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 striking miners Friday for staging an unlawful strike that is one of several that are slowly paralyzing South Africa's crucial mining sector. | About 80,000 miners, representing 16 percent of the country's mine ...
Miners' union still sitting out presidential race
Lexington Herald-Leader
| MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — With election day one month away, the United Mine Workers of America continues to sit out the presidential race for the first time in 40 years. | On Friday, the union announced it's backing Democratic U.S. House and Senate...
Platinum Producer Fires Striking SAfrican Miners
National Public Radio
| JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 striking miners Friday for staging an unlawful strike that is one of several that are slowly paralyzing South Africa's crucial mining sector. | About 80,000 miners, representing 16 percent ...
Platinum producer fires striking SAfrican miners
Springfield News-Sun
| Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 striking miners Friday for staging an unlawful strike that is one of several that are slowly paralyzing South Africa's crucial mining sector. | About 80,000 miners, representing 16 percent of the country's mine ...
Platinum Producer Fires Striking SAfrican Miners
The Street
| JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 striking miners Friday for staging an unlawful strike that is one of several that are slowly paralyzing South Africa's crucial mining sector. | About 80,000 miners, representing 16 perce...
Amplats dismisses 12 000 Rustenburg miners, confirms more strikes
Mining Weekly
| JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – About 12 000 employees who have been taking part in an illegal strike at South African platinum producer Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats’) Rustenburg mines have been dismissed after failing to ...
Australian miner optimistic about prospect of Botswana's first uranium mine
Xinhua
| GABORONE, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Australian mining company A-Cap Resources developing Botswana's first uranium mine said on Friday that it remains optimistic following the recent update of the Letlhakane project, 190 km west of the country's second cit...
Sports
Arsenal's coach Arsene Wenger, from France, is seen prior to their match against Sporting Braga during their Champions League group H soccer match Tuesday, Nov. 23 2010, at Braga Municipal stadium in Braga, Portugal.
(photo: AP / Paulo Duarte)
Wenger: Arsenal have no special plan for Carroll
Goal
Ahead of the Gunners' Premier League clash with West Ham, the Frenchman has insisted his side have no particular strategy in mind to deal with the on-loan striker | By Chris Teale | More On :  Arsenal, West Ham, Andy Carroll, Arsène Wenger | Comments | Getty Images | Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has praised West Ham striker Andy Ca...
Technology
A stone house in the nature to maintained environment - natural materials
(photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Nature’s best friend
The Hindu
Sustainable architecture is being driven today by many streams where local wisdom complements global ideas; where technology contributes to tradition; and where modern touch elevates past practices. As such, modern technology by definition is not disastrous or an undebated enemy of nature. If so, why do we hear technology as an anti-thesis to susta...



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