There has also been concern regarding foreign investment being affected with mining taxes being raised.
Manufacturing's share of total Chinese investment (22%) is catching up fast with mining (29%).
The tax was highly unpopular with mining companies such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.
After a four-day rally, European shares traded lower on Tuesday afternoon, with mining companies the biggest losers.
Tuesday also brought a deal, with Glencore International agreeing to a long-anticipated merger with mining firm Xstrata.
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They had also promised to "pay mercenaries with mining concessions" in resource-rich DR Congo, Mr Abrahams said, it reports.
Silver Wheaton signs long-term purchase agreements with mining companies (typically gold and copper mining companies) that produce silver as a by-product.
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It uses machine learning and social media and is very sensitive to privacy concerns often associated with mining data about individuals.
What sort of problems arise when NGOs and government agencies try to partner with mining companies to advance international development?
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This is due to lower throughput capacity at Goldstrike in Nevada as autoclaves are modified, along with mining in lower-grade ore zones at several mines.
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Harry Winston shares ownership of the diamond mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada with mining giant Rio Tinto, which owns a 60 percent stake.
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Yet the Kols found themselves ensnared in a new sort of servitude, woven by contractors with mining leases obtained from the raja (who still claims mining rights to 46 villages).
Manufacturing, which is one of the components of the index of production along with mining and quarrying, gas and electricity, and water and sewerage, fell 0.3% compared with the previous month.
Alcoa, which competes with mining giants like Rusal, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Chalco, is upbeat about the global outlook for aluminum and expects the strong demand to continue in the next decade.
The desired outcomes of the meeting are to identify the most significant issues involved with mining in or near biosphere reserves and to begin the process of establishing guidelines for mining in biosphere reserves.
"Diamond production must not be governed by a predatory elite which is in collusion with mining companies for its own benefit, " he was quoted as saying at the conference by South Africa's Business Day newspaper.
Mining stocks can sometimes amplify the volatile movements of precious metals they gather from the earth, especially when there are dramatic movements in the price of the commodity itself combined with no reduction or even increases in the costs associated with mining the commodities themselves.
His involvement with large mining firms in Quebec did not begin with the birth of Plan Nord.
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Silver Wheaton has long-term contracts with other mining companies to buy silver at very cheap prices.
Some seem to have gone to the southern border with Brazil, to deal with illegal mining.
The reality is that working with any mining company is going to be a problem.
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The area, too, is changing rapidly, with the mining industry now almost completely gone.
The Rocky Mountains are littered with ghost towns that were once thronged with men mining silver, lead or uranium.
Sales rose again in 2009 to a high of 2.64 million with accelerated mining in higher grade sections of the Grasberg mines.
Google has also played with data mining to create better managers, as described in a New York Times article published early this year.
Alaska is criss-crossed with old mining roads and trails established before the national parks, monuments and wildlife refuges that cover 75% of the vast state.
With physical mining assets and a solid commodities trading house, Glasenberg is looking to rival the likes of Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, and Vale.
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His replacement, Julia Gillard, came up with a mining tax so watered-down that two of the biggest mining companies operating in Australia have paid nothing to date.
It's a New York institution, open since 1892, and the worn, subterranean spa has a Spartan look and feel imagine a small town aquarium crossed with a mining shaft.
Pacific Rim also disputes the land ownership charge, claiming to own or lease all of the lands it is required to own in order to comply with Salvadoran mining laws.
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