The government of Bougainville claims it has the “clear moral authority” to decide who might mine the mothballed Panguna mine, not that of Papua New Guinea. Bougainville’s president, John Momis, also appears to discount the return of Rio Tinto to...
Harry Winston is buying BHP Billiton’s diamond assets, including its controlling interest in the Ekati Diamond Mine as well as the associated diamond sorting and sales facilities in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and Antwerp, Belgium, for US$ 500 million....
The South Australian state government has granted BHP a four-year extension to come up with a cost-effective plan to expand its Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-fast-news?oid=161849&sn=Detail&pid=92730....
The Cerrejon Coal company, owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata, has announced a suspension of studies and consultations on the possible diversion of 26kilometres of the River Rancheria, the only river of any size in the...
Keystone XL opponents demand Obama reject pipeline Less than two weeks after U.S. President Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term, thousands of protesters rallied in Washington Sunday asking him to reject the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, which...
Sources familiar with the matter say mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland is lending his support to Nat Rothschild’s move to keep alive the Bumi Plc coal-mining venture. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-fast-news?oid=163403&sn=Detail....
