Yesterday, rumors that U.K.-based miner Anglo-American may bid for U.S.-based coal-producer Walter Energy (WLT), spurred by The Times of London newspaper, resulted in a 21% jump in WLT shares.
His last appearance was in 1984 when Mr McLoughlin - a former miner - told delegates he would continue working despite being called a "Tory scab".
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Mr. Barakzai and a young teacher named Ahmad followed a ten-year-old miner deep into the mine to film the video.
The 28-year-old miner punched and kicked the crocodile, while at the same time clinging on to mangrove branches and screaming for help.
The family of a 49-year-old miner who was killed in an accident at a North Yorkshire pit have said they have been devastated by his death.
The London-listed miner is accused of violating forest-protection laws and the rights of tribal groups, but has said it will not abandon the project, which was expected to yield 78m tonnes of the aluminium-bearing ore.
But Africa-focused miner Sundance Resources plummeted 45 percent as it came out of a three-week trading halt.
"This is Dr. House, " one miner says off-camera as Barrios is being videotaped.
What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take sixty percent or more of his extra pay?
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CVRD, Brazil's giant iron-ore miner, and other investors to develop a new slab plant on Brazil's north-east coast.
Shell aims to combine coal gasification with gas-to-diesel technology in an alliance with coal miner Anglo American.
That brawl came at San Francisco's Open Mobile Summit last week, where tensions boiled over into a series of subtle (and not-so-subtle) jabs between Google exec Rich Miner, Symbian veep Jerry Panagrossi, and Nokia's Mary McDowell.
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After spells in the timber trade, the scrap metal business and as a prospector-miner, he found it as a professional hunter organising safaris.
He worked as a coal-miner in his teens, was drafted in 1943, and spent much of the war driving a truck for a mess squadron in Arizona.
Arguably, the biggest surprise in this news is the desire of a copper and gold miner such as Freeport-McMoRan to become heavily involved in the oil and gas business.
Earlier this year, the shareholders of Inco and Falconbridge rejected a three-way tie-up with Phelps Dodge, an American copper miner.
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When asked what he wants to do when he grows up, 4-year-old Ben Sedgmer blurts out, "Coal miner!"
Albert's 80-year-old grandson Noel Snailham, himself now a retired miner and former mine rescue team member, recalled the mixed emotions his mother felt at this act of selflessness.
For each laid-off miner, up to ten dependants lose their chief source of income.
Their second largest holding is a small-cap miner that trades in the pink sheets called Avocet Mining.
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Lundin in a Toronto-based miner that produces copper and zinc through its operations in Sweden, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Congo and Russia.
"We are New Englanders, change doesn't come easy, " said Rep. Craig Miner, the Republican co-chairman of a legislative task force on gun control.
Rubin also noted that Android co-founder Rich Miner had a cellphone speech company called Wildfire.
The Toronto-based Canadian miner slugs it out with Goldcorp and Newmont for market dominance.
Last week, the Vancouver-based junior miner said it has bought all the assets of Arimetco, Inc.
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At this year's event last month, he was looking to sell the Ontario-based gold miner after financing dried up.
He keeps a memento behind his desk: A 20-year-old Zenith TV, knobs missing, pierced by a bullet from an angry miner.
Shares in the London-listed Indonesian coal miner Bumi have surged after Indonesia's powerful Bakrie family proposed to split from the firm.
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