First it was off- and now it’s apparently on again. At the end of last month, under considerable pressure from some members of its own parliament, the Mongolian government said it would re-negotiate the Oyu Tolgoi agreement in order to increase its interest to...
At around midnight on Friday, 10 horsemen charged into the exploration camp and set fire to outbuildings, said Talas Copper Gold, a joint venture between the British company Orsu Metals and South African miner Gold Fields. See...
Xstrata to acquire Canadian metallurgical coal deposit Xstrata Coal has entered into an agreement to acquire the Lossan metallurgical coal deposit in British Columbia, Canada, from Cline Mining for C$40m ($38.45m). The coal deposit is located in the Peace River...
Re: Lodge House opencast expansion, planning application CM6/0910/94 to extract an additional 748,000 tonnes of coal from an extension to the mine adjacent to the village: Derbyshire County Council as the Mineral Planning Authority, had indicated that it would oppose...
BHP Billiton’s proposed Inga 3 hyropower scheme in DR Congo, and its existing Mphanda Nkugwa dam in Mozambique – both designed to provide electricity for the company’s aluminium plants – come under fire from the former Africa programme director of the...
Essar Group, the Indian company whose businesses range from shipping to power, is considering listing infrastructure assets in London to raise about $750 million, three people with knowledge of the matter said. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Credit Suisse Group AG...
