Company is to be blamed, says Turkish miner The Hindu Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey’s worst mining disaster- company negligence. | And he knows one other thing he’s never going back down any mine again. | Mr. Bicak, 24, had just ended his shift on Tuesday and was making his way to the surfa...
Violent protest in Turkish town where 274 miners died Chicago Sun-Times Updated: May 15, 2014 12:44AM | SOMA, Turkey — Amid wails of grief and anger, rescue workers coated in grime trudged repeatedly out of a coal mine Wednesday with stretchers of bodies that swelled the death toll to 274 — the worst such disaster in Turkish history. | Hopes faded for 150 others sti...
Qld Minerals and Energy Bill promises streamlined process Mining Weekly PERTH (miningweekly.com) – The Queensland government has introduced the Mineral and Energy Resources Bill 2014, as the first step in creating a single, common resources Act for the mining, petroleum and gas, greenhouse gas storage and geotherma...
Heavy minerals explorer homes in on Inhambane Mining Weekly London-listed exploration and development company Savannah Resources has started a second scout drilling programme at its 180 km2 Jangamo heavy mineral sands (HMS) project, in Inhambane, Mozambique, and plans to start its heliborne magnetic survey of...
Over 300 miners' jobs at risk Stuff More than 300 workers at Solid Energy's Stockton coalmine face losing their jobs. | Solid Energy said yesterday it would put a "change proposal" to workers today at the state-owned coalmine, 35 kilometres north of Westport, today. Community leaders a...
Big miners' profits take a hit Stuff The world's top 40 mining companies - including Australian giants BHP Billiton, Fortescue Metals, Newcrest Mining and Rio Tinto - have seen profits plunge by a staggering 72 per cent in the last 12 months to A$20 billion ($22 billion), the lowest lev...
Miners' profits have slumped by 72% over past year Sydney Morning Herald The world's top 40 mining companies – including Australian giants BHP Billiton, Fortescue Metals, Newcrest Mining and Rio Tinto – have seen profits by plunge by a staggering 72 per cent in the last 12 months to $20 billion, the lowest lev...
Miners' profits have slumped by 72% over past year Canberra Times Miners' combined market value dropped 23 per cent to $958 billion over the past 12 months. Photo: Quentin Jones | The world's top 40 mining companies – including Australian giants BHP Billiton, Fortescue Metals, Newcrest Mining and Rio Tinto &#...
Big miners gasping for air amid 72pc profit wipeout The Australian PROFITS at the world’s biggest 40 miners plunged 72 per cent to $20 billion last year, the lowest value in a decade. | PwC’s 11th annual global report on the top 40 companies in the sector revealed a record $57bn in impairment charges hit...
RPT-Diversity back in vogue for miners as iron ore price tumbles Reuters (Repeats story first published late Wednesday; no change to text) | By Stephen Eisenhammer, Sonali Paul and Silvia Antonioli | RIO DE JANEIRO/MELBOURNE/LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) - After pouring billions of dollars into producing more iron ore to feed ...
Exhaustion of cheap mineral resources is terraforming Earth – scientific report The Guardian Soaring costs of resource extraction require transition to post-industrial 'circular economy' to avoid collapse | Humanity may have exhausted the Earth's low-cost mineral resources before the end of this century - but better resource management can a...
The MLB Draft Has A Huge Flaw That Overcompensates Baseball's Worst Teams Business Insider See Also | Tonight is Major League Baseball's draft, and for the third year in a row the Houston Astros will have the No. 1-overall pick. | This absurdity highlights the biggest flaw in baseball's draft. | Since baseball draft picks will likely spend a few years in the minor leagues, teams do not immediately feel the impact of those picks, making i...
Take A Look At This Fantastic New Condom Funded By Bill Gates Business Insider Bill Gates | Researchers at the University of Wollongong are working on a next-generation condom that feels like skin. | The project was funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which gave $100,000 to about a dozen such projects, challenging them to build a condom people actually wouldn't mind using. | Bill Gates talked about the condom p...
