AngloGold sacks 12,000 defiant South African miners The Star | CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (Reuters) - AngloGold Ashanti sacked 12,000 wildcat strikers who defied a deadline to return to work on Wednesday, the latest South African company to resort to mass firings after weeks of crippling labour unrest. | Thousands of stick-wielding strikers responded by rall...
Greece welcomes gold miners The Independent | LONDON — For three years, Steve Sharpe's company prodded Greek officials for permission to drill for gold. Before approval was finally granted this year, European Goldfields Ltd.'s battered share price attracted a takeover bid. | "No way on earth would I go back to Greece," said the Ca...
Better to increase tax on profits than revenue: miners Otago Daily Times | The Government proposes to increase royalties it receives from mining companies, but submissions on whether profits or revenue should attract the increases may alter the plan. | Any change to royalty rates will only apply to new permits, so existin...
Nat Rothschild launches a late $1.2bn bid to grab miner Bumi The Independent | The billionaire banking scion Nat Rothschild is launching what may be a last-ditch bid to rescue his standing in the City of London by forming a consortium to bid for mining firm Bumi against his rivals the Bakrie family. | The soap opera at Bumi, ...
Canadian miner sees big potential in Queensland project Mining Weekly | TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Canadian uranium project developer Laramide Resources sees big potential in Australia’s uranium sector after a decades-long ban on mining the radioactive metal in Queensland was lifted in October. | Laramide...
International Minerals Updates Development of Goldfield Property Mineweb International Minerals Corporation | SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwire - Nov 1, 2012) - International Minerals Corporation (TSX: IMZ) (SWISS: IMZ) (or "the Company") reports significant new drill intersections and results from additional metallurgical...
Cops use tear gas on KZN miners Independent online Bongani Hans and Sapa | police used tear gas yesterday to disperse striking miners from the Forbes & Manhattan Coal processing plant in Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal. | According to police officers, the workers were protesting outside the proc...
Teargas used on miners Sowetan Live | According to miners and police officers at the scene, workers were protesting outside the processing plant of the Canadian mining company. | On Wednesday, police said two striking miners were shot after security guards had chased them from the comp...
Cape Alumina sells noncore bauxite tenements, mineral sands interests Mining Weekly | PERTH (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed Cape Alumina has reached an agreement to sell its Hey Point bauxite tenements and its mineral sands interest in western Cape York in a deal worth A$3.4-million. | MD Graeme Sherlock said on Friday the tra...
US mine regulators seek more miner reinstatements Lexington Herald-Leader | ARLINGTON, Va. — Federal mining regulators requested a record number of temporary reinstatements for miners who were retaliated against for reporting unsafe working conditions. | The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administr...
Markets Live: Miners prop ASX up Canberra Times | Australian stocks shed early gains with improvement in US jobs data and consumer confidence not enough to hold the local market higher. Consumers give US economy a lift Dollar higher than before last rate cut Joyce looks back at Qantas's 'pivo...
Markets Live: Miners hold ASX higher Canberra Times | Australian shares inched higher with miners rallying on strong metal prices, while gains were capped by sluggish earnings and caution ahead of the release of US jobs data. Consumers give US economy a lift Dollar higher than before last rate cut Joy...
Lakers lose to Clippers, 105-95, fall to 0-3 The Los Angeles Times | The Clippers hope to make history this season by getting to the Western Conference finals for the first time. | The Lakers already created some, falling to 0-3 for the first time since 1978. | When the two Los Angeles teams banged into each other Friday, it was clear which one was better these days, the Clippers pelting the Lakers, 105-95, in a d...
Cellphone Users Steaming at Hit-or-Miss Service The New York Times To wireless customers, cellphone networks might seem to be made out of thin air. But they are plenty vulnerable to catastrophic storms — and bringing service back can take an excruciatingly long time. | On Friday, four days after Hurricane Sandy, the major carriers — AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA and Sprint — were still...
