Earth’s Mantle Affects Long-Term Sea-Level Rise Estimates
From Virginia to Florida, there is a prehistoric shoreline that, in some parts, rests more than....
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Another Aussie iron ore miner sets records
Iron ore miner Mount Gibson Iron (ASX:MGX) on Friday announced record breaking sales....
Buyers line up for Glencore Xstrata’s massive Peru copper mine
Glencore Xstrata’s (LON: GLEN) Las Bambas copper project in Peru, which it must sell...
Rio Tinto boasts record iron ore production figures
Rio Tinto (LON:RIO), the world’s second largest iron ore producer, has released a....
Africa exploration activity set to more than halve in 2013
Africa has not escaped the dramatic drop-off in global exploration activity since October....
Miners not benefiting from increased US coal consumption
According to the latest data, coal stockpiles at the country’s power plants has dropped below....
Atlas Copco suffers weak demand for mining gear
Stockholm-based engineering group Atlas Copco announced spending and job cuts as a ....
Iron ore price climbs to 6-week high as Australian exports hit record
The iron ore price jumped again on Friday, bringing its gains for the week to more tha....
Jim Rogers says gold could fall to $900
The sell-off on precious metals markets Friday came after good jobs news in the US....
Feeding Galaxy Caught in Distant Searchlight
Astronomers have always suspected that galaxies grow by pulling in material from their....
Iron ore price resumes march on $120
The iron ore price jumped more than 2% on Tuesday closing in on the $120 a tonne level see....
Copper slump to cause Chile $4bn in lost revenue: authorities
As copper prices keep going down a slippery slope triggered by signs of slowing in....
Copper kicks off Q3 with huge rally
The copper price raced ahead on the first trading day of the third quarter, adding more...
Glencore grabs over 31 million shares of Polymet
Glencore Xtrata plc announced that it has acquired 31,756,979 common shares of Polymet....
More Rio Tinto pain at $6.2 billion Oyu Tolgoi
The dispute between the Mongolian government and Rio Tinto over repatriation of....