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LABOUR INACTION

Workers strike at Bolivia's top tin mine, seek better pensions

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Workers on strike at Bolivia's biggest tin mine, state-run Huanuni, have cost the mine $5-million in lost output since they walked off the job on May 6, the government said on Friday. Miners at Huanuni have joined a general strike to demand...
17th May 2013
 
 
NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT

Quebec announces plans for northern development, assigns $868m

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Quebec Premier Pauline Marois Quebec Premier Pauline Marois and provincial Natural Resources Minister Martine Ouellet, on Tuesday outlined the province’s incumbent political party, Parti Québécois’ economic vision for developing the vast north, committing $868-million...
7th May 2013
 
 
Coal – 1

Vale seeks peace with potters, continues training Mozambicans

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Brazilian mining group Vale has been negotiating with potters who blockaded its Moatize coal mine in the Tete province of Mozambique for about 24 hours in the middle of last month, the Mozambican newspaper O País reported recently. The potters...
3rd May 2013
 
 
JUNIOR MINERS

Lack of funding, overregulation among factors stymying junior miners

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Funding and government overregulation of the mining industry are two of the most significant factors that are currently playing a role in the hampering of the junior mining sector’s project growth and development in South Africa, says Sephaku...
26th April 2013
 
 
Coal

Vale’s Moatize mine hit by compensation protest

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Vale Mozambique, the African coal mining subsidiary of the major Brazilian mining group Vale, was again hit by protests at its Moatize coal mine in Mozambique’s Tete province last week. The protestors blocked all road and rail access to the mine...
26th April 2013
 
 
DIVERSIFIED MINERS

Shanduka halves exposure to mining, grows infrastructure activity

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Shanduka, one of South Africa’s leading black-owned and black-managed holding companies, has halved its exposure to mining, CEO Phuti Mahanyele said on Monday. Speaking to Mining Weekly Online in an exclusive interview, the 42-year-old head of...
23rd April 2013
 
 
LEGISLATIVE ENVIRONMENT

Mining community sought to serve as industry model

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A champion community to serve as a developmental model for the rest of the mining industry is being sought by a leading member of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM). Veteran SAIMM member Robbie Robinson, in a leading...
22nd April 2013
 
 
MINING INVESTMENT

Long-term thinking critical – Anglo American

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Long-term thinking helped to generate wealth, mitigate environmental harm, combat poverty and promote development in near-mine communities, Anglo American chairperson Sir John Parker said on Friday. The company’s 2012 sustainable development...
19th April 2013
 
 
 
 
 
 
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