Flooding and a pit wall collapse put an end to mining in the mid-1980s.
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Because of its scale and prominence, Yanacocha may hold the key to mining's future in Peru.
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Alan Garcia, as president from 2006-2011, opened up the Amazon to mining and oil exploration and drilling.
That could be about to happen now, given that the strategy would leave investors heavily exposed to mining stocks.
Looking ahead, the demand for workers will only increase, according to mining groups.
Commodities giant Glencore has officially confirmed the terms of its improved merger offer to mining group Xstrata, made on Friday.
During this time period, the amount of gold in the world increased by about 3.4 times, due to mining production.
The percentages fixed in Muhammad's time applied only to mining and agriculture (and, agonised one early caliph, were pomegranates exempt?).
This makes it attractive to mining companies, which operate in inconvenient places where they cannot easily plug into a national grid.
Lynch covered a variety of industries from textiles and chemicals to mining.
Altela provides on-site water desalination to mining and oil and gas companies.
The Obama administration has proposed putting government land designated for solar and wind development off limits to mining claims for at least two years.
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Asked what the EU has achieved there to date, spokesman Andy McGuffie points to its pre-independence work to reform essential services, from telecoms to mining.
The actual charge to mining companies has fallen by more than half, from about 34% of profits earlier this decade to less than 14% in 2008-09.
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The search query is also restricted to mining data from friends and open profiles on Facebook, and this is a much smaller pool compared to Yelp.
Sales decreased from 2.32 million ounces in 2007 to 1.31 million ounces in 2008 due to mining in the lower grade section of the Grasberg open pit.
More importantly, they argue that the size and diversity of the new company will make it less vulnerable to mining's painful cycles, and so more attractive to investors.
The government has sent police reinforcements to mining areas.
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And countries (generally poor ones) who have the rain forests should be compensated for protecting them, particularly when they are under so much economic pressure to open them up to mining companies.
The Conga project has become a lightning rod for larger debates about whether mining can benefit local communities without damaging the environment and whether or not national economic interests should trump local opposition to mining activities.
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While Beejan cautioned the government that the bill could be a threat to mining operations, in turn affecting the provincial economy, he still believes Quebec to be one of the best places for the mining sector.
And while we have 14 National Parks, some attitudes toward them are suggesting changes, basic changes in some quarters whereby some portion of the New Zealand public now apparently believes they should be open to mining and evaluated strictly according to various byzantine economic criteria.
Entrepreneurs and con men sunk dozens of wells around Fort McMurray in the second half of the nineteenth century. (One enterprising German immigrant who claimed to have struck oil apparently poured the stuff down the hole himself.) Eventually, it became clear that there was no oil, and attention turned to mining the bitumen.
It doesn't hurt to have mining rights to the world's largest known deposits of nitrates and iodine.
They intend to go mining asteroids to provide exactly the materials that would enable us to get up and off this rock.
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Experts in the industry, and executives of operating and exploration projects, cover subjects from risks in mining to new prospective areas for mining around the world to commodity market outlooks.
India's top court has said local villagers will have a say on whether to allow mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite in the state of Orissa.
As it is cheaper to buy mining stocks than to develop reserves, it may be just a matter of time before the industry sees a massive wave of consolidation, thus contributing to what we expect could offer additional appreciation opportunities.
The cut was due to declining mining activity globally due to softening of metal and iron-ore prices.
They're trying to make their mining codes more easy, more accessible - whereas South Africa, because of the political uncertainty here, it's been more difficult to promote their mining investment.
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