Metal Minings News

But a grassroots organization in the Coal River Valley is standing up to a proposed mountaintop removal mine by countering with a potential wind farm on the same mountain. Massey Energy has plans to strip-mine 10 square miles of the …

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Mountaintop Use: Coal Mining vs. Wind Farming

We currently have eight geologists who analyze mining company data and post it in a database that is accessible for a large fee. More and more people are signing up for this service. Seems there is an extraordinarily growing interest in …

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Supercycle Bust II: stories from the mining industry

THE world’s biggest mining firm BHP Billiton - which has oil and gas operations in Liverpool Bay off the North Wales coast - says China’s voracious appetite for raw materials has helped fuel a seventh successive year of record …

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7th Record Year for Mining Firm

Investment Markets

Oil, metals prices see gainsInvestment Markets,?UK?- 3 hours agoAluminium added $22 to $2777 per tonne while zinc was up $86 to $1746 per tonne, lead was $105 higher to $1800 per tonne, and tin gained over $400 trade in …

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Oil, metals prices see gains - Investment Markets

Mexico-based Fresnillo’s (LSE: FRES) profits surge.

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Mining - Mexico - Fresnillo profits jump 58% in H1