However, mining-led exports helped keep the economy growing, despite an overall drop in business investment.
After dubious forays into casinos and gold mining--plus a regulatory sanction for false filings--publicly traded LS Capital Corp.
Miller has four divisions - housing, construction, property and mining - all of which recorded profits last year.
Mining-services firms MacMahon Holdings and Downer EDI gained 7.3% and 5.9%, respectively, receiving market approval of their own first-half results.
Caterpillar alleged that Siwei, a mining-equipment firm in Zhengzhou, had falsely inflated its revenues over many years prior to the 2012 acquisition.
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Currently, mining -- particularly diamonds, copper, gold, zinc, lead, uranium -- constitutes more than 12% of Namibia's GDP, according to government figures.
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It used to be a massive area for mining - now there's nothing and there are generations of the same families out of work.
Now that Xstrata and Glencore have unveiled their widely expected plan to merge and form a mining-and-commodities behemoth, the hard work begins: Selling the deal to shareholders and regulators.
His firm hasn't cut staff yet, but its bankruptcy specialist recently briefed Mr. Villani and his mining-focused colleagues about a potential slew of insolvencies, should commodities prices continue to sink.
Back on land, mining-company engineers say new techniques, such as dissolving minerals and sucking them up through a pipe or extracting ore with high-powered water jets, could increase recoverable reserves.
During the commodity boom in 2001-2008, it shrank by an average of 1% a year, whereas the world's other top 20 mining-export countries grew by an average of 5% a year.
It wasn't anybody's idea of a dream job when John Nils Hanson, a 59-year-old nuclear engineer from MIT, was named chief executive of Milwaukee-based Harnischfeger, by far the world's largest mining-machine maker.
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It wasn't anybody's idea of a dream job when John Nils Hanson, a 59-year-old nuclear engineer from MIT, was named the CEO of Harnischfeger, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by far the world's largest mining-machine maker.
With a sluggish recovery underway in Europe and North America and emerging markets enjoying unprecedented growth, metal prices are set to raise even further, making metals and mining-sector exchange traded funds potentially lucrative options.
Investigators determined that Marin had ordered the quick-acting poison -- typically used in agriculture and gold mining -- from a California-based company and that it was delivered by FedEx to his home in 2011.
Born in a Nevada mining-town shack and toughened by a hardworking childhood on a farm in Artesia, she had helped put herself through the University of Southern California with occasional jobs as a movie extra.
This is especially the case since there have been a number of other mining-sector acquisition announcements over the last year in which share prices of companies have declined, suggesting a lack of investor enthusiasm, he said.
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But at the heart of this unpicturesque village 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, with its trailer parks and mining-town architecture, burns the pioneering spirit of mountain adventure that far predates the cookie-cutter chalets and sophisticated lift systems that have come to define the modern mainstream ski holiday.
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It will be challenging for the company as it transitions from soft-rock mining to hard-rock mining.
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Zaire will almost certainly follow suit, opening an opportunity for cross-border mining co-operation.
Put to the test last year, the superhard coating was applied to plates on a 20-ton mining rock-crusher and reduced jagged boulders to pebbles for 48 hours before wearing out.
The Plan A drill -- a mining drill -- reached 148 meters (486 feet), but the hole it was drilling would still need to be widened to 70 centimeters (27.5 inches) to accommodate the rescue capsule.
Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian mining company, recently said it was withdrawing from a gold-mining project in Kurdistan.
The result, marketed under the name of Bauxsol by Virotec International, a former gold-mining company, has proved to be an effective mopper-upper of mining waste.
The project, called the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, will focus on Latin America and other parts of the developing world and will work with the private sector--specifically, a group of mining companies--to address social, economic and environmental issues in a sustainable and cost-effective way.
Some of those miners who do not find re-employment will probably join small local mining co-ops.
At the very least, small-scale and low-tech gemstone-mining could be a fall-back for the country's beleaguered herders.
Briggs pointed out that producers will be mining higher-grade areas at several major mines next year.
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