If western mining companies are eventually squeezed out, the Chinese will be well placed to move in.
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He had experience representing Western mining interests in Mongolia, whose vast, untapped reserves of copper, gold, and coal are at the center of an international scramble.
Demand for raw materials and the related trade surplus, a surge in the Australian dollar and increase in interest rates are twisting the economy, strengthening western mining regions while undercutting tourism and nonmining industries.
It was an old Mid-western coal-mining town, where there was no more mining, and very few other places to work.
On January 15th, Brett Kebble, scion of one of South Africa's best-known mining families, announced his resignation as deputy chairman of Western Areas, a mining firm.
Whether Western interests (mining, tobacco and finance) should withdraw or set themselves up as drivers of change is a question that demands careful and urgent consideration.
In fact, certain stocks, like Yamana Gold, Desert Sun Mining and Western Silver, were owned by several of top seven portfolios.
Western aid agencies, Chinese mining companies and U.N. peacekeepers have done their bit, but the continent's main saviors are its own people.
In principle the RBA could change its inflation target, ignoring prices in the mining state of Western Australia and perhaps the Northern Territory.
However, the prosperity and economic activity seen in the mining fields of Western Australia and northern Queensland - the so-called quarry of the world - has not spread across this vast continent.
But after picking a fight with the resources sector over his plans for a super tax on their super profits, the polls slumped again - especially in the mining states of Western Australia and Queensland.
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.
But growth is getting more expensive, as other mining firms, and Western Australia's booming oil and gas industry, compete for labour and materials.
After the mining company, which is working on properties in Western Canada and Alaska, said it and partner Teck Cominco halted an unexpectedly costly mining project in British Columbia, its shares lost more than half their value on Monday.
Brian Rogers buys Apache, Apple, Western Union, PNC Financial, Newmont Mining, Joy Global, Inc.
Strateco, Abitex, Western troy and Eastmain Resources are all mining companies in the area that will benefit from the governments infrastructure plan.
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Not only does China have the blessing of favorable geology (ample resources), but the country actively supported its rare earth mining operations at a time when Western miners were closing up shop.
Isolated on the western edge of Arizona, Quartzsite was once a mining area and way station for travelers, later becoming popular with retirees for its mild winters.
Freight business includes transport of bulk mineral commodities, including iron ore, agricultural products, mining and industrial inputs and general freight throughout Queensland and Western Australia.
Capitalizing on the popular mania for sustainable energy, the penny-stock operators are converting failed Canadian mining outfits and Internet firms into green machines with names like Western Wind Energy and Hydrogen Power International.
Mining company Rio Tinto has turned to driverless trucks to operate mines in Western Australia.
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The government says the mining is illegal, but in this rural Muslim region of north-western Nigeria it has been going on for generations - and it was a discovery of greater deposits that has led to the recent boom in digging for gold.
Mining for iron, copper, gold and coal is the keystone of the Western Australia economy.
"While North America remains depressed, and we've seen softening in Western Europe and Japan, Caterpillar continues to grow in emerging markets and in global industries like energy and mining, " Chief Executive JimOwensJim Owens said.
"While North America remains depressed, and we've seen softening in Western Europe and Japan, Caterpillar continues to grow in emerging markets and in global industries like energy and mining, " Chief Executive Jim Owens said.
Founded in 1700 by Dutch colonists and stewarded by a long line of British mining magnates, the vineyards of Vergelegen had been left fallow by the time Anglo American bought the Western Cape estate in 1987.
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