Representatives of the mine owner, the San Esteban Mining Co.
Emperor Gold Mining, which runs Vatukoula mine, faces big losses because of a trade ban by Australian trade unions.
It currently owns a 40 percent share of the mine with the remaining interest owned by mining company Rio Tinto, as Rio has stated a desire to pull out of the diamond business.
But the Japanese pulled out of the Taiyo fish cannery at Noro, timber exports were hit by the Asian slump, Ross Mining closed its Gold Ridge mine and Guadalcanal's palm-oil plantations have been abandoned.
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Platinum-producer Lonmin recently agreed to a new wage contract with striking workers at its Marikana mine, but friction between an upstart mining union and the established mining union has led to clashes at several platinum mines in South Africa.
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TO), an intermediate gold mining company with the Mesquite Mine in the United States, the Cerro San Pedro Mine in Mexico and the Peak Gold Mines in Australia, at a little over 6% of the ETF, followed by SEMAFO (Toronto: SMF.
Paddy Gorman, spokesman for the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union, said none of the miners at Agnew Gold Mine in resource-rich Western Australia state is a member of the mining union.
In terms of mining investment, while the cancellation or delay of Olympic Dam mine expansion by BHP Billiton indicates that projects under consideration have probably peaked, this does not mean that the mining investment boom is over.
But one of the mine's investors, Canadian firm Celeste Mining, now says it could halt further work because of higher than anticipated costs.
Harry Winston shares ownership of the diamond mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada with mining giant Rio Tinto, which owns a 60 percent stake.
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The high cost to expand the mine given the current negative sentiment in the mining industry raised a few eyebrows with analysts due to the low internal rate of return.
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As for his current company, McEwen Mining commissioned the El Gallo 1 mine in Mexico last month and hopes to begin construction in the third quarter of this year on El Gallo 2.
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In particular, according to Orellana, Pacific Rim failed to provide an adequate environmental impact assessment for its proposed mine and did not meet the Salvadoran requirement that mining companies own the land that would be affected by their operations.
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Tom West, who represents Norse in the challenge to Dryden's zoning law, said he'll argue that the Frew Run case, which involved a gravel mine, doesn't apply because the state mining law is fundamentally different from the oil and gas statutes.
Mr. Friedland, who spent much of the 1970s traveling in India, where he studied Sanskrit, Hindu culture and Buddhism, once said he became interested in mining after stumbling upon an abandoned gold mine on property he was developing for a timber venture with Mr. Jobs, whom he met at Reed College in Portland, Ore.
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.
The company has said it is mainly interested in mining in areas of rock between existing flooded mine workings, but some of those flooded areas need to be pumped for safety.
The campaign focuses on emerald jewelry, which coincides with Gemfields main business: the mining and marketing of emeralds from the Kagem mine in Zambia, which it has a 75 percent stake in.
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The more mining takes place, the harder it becomes to mine new Bitcoins and the more power is required for the process.
Gemfields primary business is the mining, distribution and marketing of emeralds from the Kagem mine in Zambia.
It quotes a review in Zambia which found that between 2005 and 2009, 500, 000 copper mine workers were paying a higher rate of tax than major multinational mining firms.
The machines are building themselves, doing their own mining to get the materials to make the machines which mine the copper which goes to the factory of machines which makes the telephone.
Many mining experts have told me the toxic pollution from the mine will likely turn Mes Aynak into a site so toxic that in the future people will be advised against even setting foot on the ground.
Bruce Bragagnolo, chief executive officer of the Vancouver-based gold mining firm, said the goal is a 10-year mine life producing 100, 000 ounces of gold per year.
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The groups own much of the land in northern Quebec and without their blessing, mining companies as well as provincial government have no right to mine their mineral rich land.
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Silver is actually a by-product of the gold and lead mining, there are few, if any, active mines that mine only silver.
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But firms that make their money mining this planet say the Earth is one big, practically inexhaustible mine, with just as many unexplored corners as outer space.
Stephen Briggs, metals strategist at BNP Paribas, believes that poor ore grades, namely from major mining companies, are at the top of the list for poor mine supply this year.
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In addition to being a luxury jeweler and timepiece company, Harry Winston Diamond Corp. operates as a diamond mining business with a 40 percent ownership interest in the Diavik Diamond Mine.
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Mining firm Freeport said at least four miners were rescued at its Grasberg mine after an underground tunnel collapsed early on Tuesday.
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