The price of fuel is tempting coal mine owners to dig more holes and buy more trucks to shift the dirt.
They want to provide a series of incentives to mine owners and firms which make gold as a by-product of smelting copper ore.
When two large copper lodes were discovered at mines in Calumet and Hecla in 1865, the two mine owners joined forces and the merged company became large enough to influence world markets.
English copper mine owners introduced soccer to Spain in the late 19th century, and the national team achieved its first glory when it won the silver medal at the 1920 Olympic Games.
Gwede Mantashe, the gruff secretary general of the governing ANC and a former NUM leader, placed most of the blame for the unrest squarely at the feet of Lonmin and other mine owners.
The son of prosperous Republican coal-mine owners, Lamm worked his way through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, even though he didn't have to, spending summers as a lumberjack in Oregon and an ore-boat deckhand on the Great Lakes.
In the longer term, many analysts believe that mine owners will give in to higher wage demands, but only by laying off tens, or possibly even hundreds of thousands of workers in a country already struggling with dangerously high levels of unemployment.
Truman pressured mine owners into signing a contract in which they would pay for a union Welfare and Retirement Fund -- hospital, medical, and retirement plans -- all financed by a royalty assessed on the amount of coal extracted by union workers.
Moreover, Mr Kahn is wonderfully unlike South Africa's patrician, sometimes arrogant, white mine-owners.
The strike ended in September after workers agreed a 22% pay rise with the mine's owners, platinum giant Lonmin.
Finding the mine's owners overwhelmed by Chile's worst mining accident in decades, he ordered his government to take charge and called in experts from Codelco, the big state-owned copper producer.
But the pride felt in the rescue attempts was tinged with bitterness in Senghenydd, as many felt that the mine's owners had failed to heed the warning of a similar disaster nine years before, in which all but one of the 82 miners on shift had been killed.
Owners of a mine at the centre of a lengthy protest campaign say operations could be completed by the end of the year - months ahead of schedule.
When local officials began breathing down their necks, the owners of Indonesia's biggest coal mine suddenly agreed to sell it at a discount of almost 40%.
Owners responsible for conditions in the Upper Big Branch mine should be held accountable for decisions they made and preventive measures they failed to take.
Plans to extend a potash mine at Boulby in East Cleveland are expected to create more than 270 jobs by the end of 2015, the owners said.
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