If the Swiss-based, London-listed company bids for the world’s third-largest platinum producer, it could signal an end to its hostile pursuit of Anglo American. The mining world’s great white shark – Xstrata PLC – is on the verge of another...
With another session of the Canadian Parliament starting up this week, Canadian resource executives will be casting an uneasy eye away from their mining developments and toward the halls of Ottawa. This is the session that could determine the future of Bill C-300, a...
New report from Greenpeace There is a clear scientific consensus that we must halve global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050 or suffer changes to the global climate with catastrophic consequences. Avoiding the most severe impacts of climate change requires...
Peru is violating the rights of indigenous people by failing to secure their consent before energy companies drill on their lands, the United Nations said… Its report was issued three months after clashes between police and indigenous groups, angered over plans to...
The Worldwatch Institute has produced a new report on metal production. In 2008, more than 1.4 billion tons of metals were produced globally-double the quantity of the late 1970s and more than seven times as much as in 1950. Since the mid-point of the twentieth...
Fear that adverse geo-physical events may negatively impact on mining operations is nothing new. Many of the world’s biggest mines are in earthquake or monsoon-prone regions. When the tsunami hit southern Asia in 2004, miners rushed to assure themselves and...
