Realitymining may appear to be more science fiction than fact, but from our cell phones to e-mail to work ID badges, we leave behind constant trails of information about ourselves.
Barrick Gold unveiled its first quarter earnings numbers, managing to beat profit estimates but giving a clear picture to what appears to be a new reality in the gold mining world: rising production costs and uncertain, and even falling, gold prices.
The push by Australia to start attracting foreign investors by offering them residency comes as the country faces what Finance Minister Penny Wong terms a new reality, as a decadelong mining boom evaporates amid a slowing global economy.
The Gleision tragedy threw a spotlight on the nature of some of the small drift mines that were once dotted around Wales, but the reality of modern day opencast mining is as far removed as you get can from a pit like Gleision.