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Steven O'Sullivan

Gold Miners Ravage Vietnam's Rivers - 0 views

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    After the Amazon forests and California rivers, it is the turn of Vietnam's rivers to fall prey to the unscrupulous activities of gold miners...
Steven O'Sullivan

Mining Giant Looks to Power Itself with Biodiesel - 0 views

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    Vale announces a project to produce biodiesel to supply its operations in the Northern region of Brazil, from 2014 onwards...
Steven O'Sullivan

Asia's biggest iron ore deposit found in China - 0 views

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    In a major development on Wednesday, China discovered huge iron ore deposits in...
Steven O'Sullivan

Great Basin Gold Buys 3,600 Acres for Indian Tribe - 0 views

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    Great Basin Gold says it has purchased more than 3,600 acres in northern Nevada to be set aside for the Western Shoshone...
Steven O'Sullivan

Green energy a future option for mine expansion - 0 views

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    BHP Billiton is hopeful green energy will remain a "future opportunity" for the Olympic Dam expansion. Its proposed expansion is...
Steven O'Sullivan

Tainted mining area gets emergency aid - 0 views

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    The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday declared its first-ever "public health emergency," saying the federal government will...
Steven O'Sullivan

60+ feared dead as Peruvian Amazon mining, oil protests descend into anarchy - 0 views

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    In the worst violence Peru has experienced since the end of the Shining Path revolt in the 1990s...
Steven O'Sullivan

Canadian Diamond To Launch on Space Shuttle - 0 views

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    A diamond from the Northwest Territories will launch into space and into history this month when...
Steven O'Sullivan

Uranium Market: Russia Wants On Top - 0 views

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    Russia's Techsnabexport (Tenex) has signed a landmark agreement with US utilities firm Fuelco worth...
Steven O'Sullivan

Palmer plans $6.5b coal behemoth - 0 views

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    Mining magnate Clive Palmer has unveiled plans for one of the nation's biggest-ever resource projects in Central Queensland...
Steven O'Sullivan

Is China headed for coal production overcapacity? - 0 views

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    The deputy director of the China Coal Industry Association says "weak demand has resulted in...
Steven O'Sullivan

Outrage Over Planned Exploration Tunnel in Kakadu National Park - 0 views

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    The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has slammed plans to build a 3km long exploration tunnel at...
Steven O'Sullivan

Mining Co. Looks at Alterative Energy Source to Power Coal Mines - 0 views

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    The mining industry is constantly searching for ways to reduce energy costs. For Peabody Energy that quest has executives considering an unlikely option...
Steven O'Sullivan

Santos to create forestry plantation - 0 views

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    Oil and gas producer Santos will create one of Australia's largest forestry plantations...
Steven O'Sullivan

Union backs Turnbull over foreign firms - 0 views

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    A mining workers' union is lining up with Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull to oppose foreign state-owned firms buying into Australian resources companies.
Steven O'Sullivan

Poverty, desperation at Amazon 'El dorado' - 0 views

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    A rumor is all it took to set off a gold rush in the deepest reaches of Brazil's Amazon jungle.
Steven O'Sullivan

World's first carbon-free copper smelting technology born in Shandong - 0 views

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    Recently, carbon-free copper smelting technology, a technology with full independent intellectual property rights, has passed expert examination...
Arabica Robusta

Like Water for Gold in El Salvador | The Nation - 0 views

  • Thirty years ago, several thousand civilians in the northern Salvadoran community of Santa Marta quickly gathered a few belongings and fled the US-funded Salvadoran military as it burned their houses and fields in an early stage of the country’s twelve-year civil war. Dozens were killed as they crossed the Lempa River into refugee camps in Honduras.
  • Miguel drove us to the office of his employer, ADES (the Social and Economic Development Association), where local people talked with us late into the night about how they had come to oppose mining. ADES organizer Vidalina Morales acknowledged that “initially, we thought mining was good and it was going to help us out of poverty…through jobs and development.”
  • He talked about watching the river near his farm dry up: “This was very strange, as it had never done this before. So we walked up the river to see why…. And then I found a pump from Pacific Rim that was pumping water for exploratory wells. All of us began to wonder, if they are using this much water in the exploration stage, how much will they use if they actually start mining?”
Alex Parker

Solomon Hub Iron Ore Mine - Mining Technology - 0 views

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    Solomon Hub open-cut iron ore mine is located around 60km north of Tom Price in Western Australia. The mine is fully owned by Australian miner Fortescue Metals Group. Fortescue Metals officially commenced operations at the Firetail deposit of the mine in May 2013.
Alex Parker

Chile: earthquakes and instability threaten world's copper king - 0 views

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    The massive earthquake which struck Chile in early April this year miraculously left the country's copper operations unscathed. Copper prices rose markedly, however, as investors waited to see what the fallout could be for the world's biggest producer. How didChile's copper industry weather the earthquake so successfully and what could the consequences have been had things gone differently?
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