Mining
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Iron ore producer hit by falling global price and a sea wall collapse, forcing it to cut production targets and flag writedowns
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Riches in oil and gas are failing to reduce poverty. Join a panel on Thursday 11 December, 1-3pm GMT to discuss how governments can capitalise on resources
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Treasurer Joe Hockey says that the national accounts released today shows economic growth over the last 12 months is considerably better than the previous year
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State-linked corporation asked the Japanese ambassador to tell Solomon Islands PM that foreign aid to hospital in his home town would be suspended
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US legislation aimed at damaging Congolese militias has inadvertently propelled millions deeper into poverty
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Other lives: Mining electrician who played an active role in the National Union of Mineworkers
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Minister says no locals would dare work underground after death of North Korean in mining accident raises questions about the use of labour
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Accommodation left by Arnhem Land’s departing workers goes to development corporation despite 12-year wait for housing
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Drew Hutton: Questionable mining approvals and big donations – that’s ‘Queensland Incorporated’. The Palmer inquiry is our best chance for transparency
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Business leaders show little gratitude for wage restraint and productivity increases under our IR system, preferring instead to believe there is some magic fairy of greater competitiveness
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Government backdown means Indian owners won’t be required to replace razed critically endangered habitat until two years into the project
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Malaysian snail among hundreds of species to become extinct as a result of fishing, logging, mining, agriculture and other activities to satisfy our growing appetite for resources
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Agreement also opens China’s services sector to Australian businesses, but fails to reduce tariffs on other agricultural commodities including rice, wheat, cotton, sugar and oilseeds
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Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship charged following mine safety investigation that followed the fatal 2010 blast
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Guardian Australia: Speech at event promoting coal interrupted by chants of ‘Peabody, we don’t want your coal. You don’t belong at G20’
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Journalist Rafael Marques de Morais is facing nine separate trials in Angola for his reporting on human rights abuses and corruption. He delivers a tribute to slain colleagues and a plea for press freedom
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Obama has said he's done more than any other president to fight climate change, but America still gets 40% of its electricity from coal. Suzanne Goldenberg gained rare access to the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming, one of the largest coal mines in the world, to see how the industry is fairing in an increasingly carbon constrained world
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Despite Obama’s pledge to cut carbon emissions, production at North Antelope Rochelle mine in Wyoming is booming - and climate change is off the agenda. Suzanne Goldenberg gets a rare look inside the biggest coalmine in the world
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Review Royal Society books shortlist: Seven Elements That Have Changed the World by John Browne – review
Ian Sample: Carnegie and Rockefeller feature in this engaging history of how the use of natural resources has underpinned greed and dramatic industrial development -
Lawyers for victims at inquiry into killing of 34 miners also call for South African vice president Cyril Ramaphosa to be investigated
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From members of the police to the deputy president, a commission seeks justice for the 34 miners who lost their lives at the Lonmin mine strikes in 2012. Greg Nicholson reports
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Discovery of minerals, oil, coal and gas spur legal changes that communities say could bring abuses or leave them out of pocket
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Twenty-nine workers were entombed by a methane explosion in 2010, but company says it is too dangerous to retrieve bodies
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Extractive companies need to recast themselves as resource stewards and embrace the circular economy by investing in recycling, not mining
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the role of business in development Ebola's catastrophic consequences on Sierra Leone’s small-scale mining sector
The impacts of Ebola have already contributed to the collapse of London mining, but the disease is also having a devastating impact on Sierra Leone’s informal mining sector -
Australia’s richest person, who did not attend any meetings in the past year, will be replaced by right-hand man John Klepec
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Other lives: Expert on industrial archaeology and folklore, and supporter of the arts in Manchester
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Collapsing iron ore prices are set to smash the Western Australian budget. But the premier can’t blame the miners when the state’s forecasts were too high
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Resource scarcity and human rights issues surrounding metals extraction, coupled with unrelenting global demand mean the industry is facing some tough realities
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Andrew Mackenzie says Colin Barnett is ‘completely wrong’ to suggest miner is trying to manage the commodity’s world price
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A former chairman of the Australian Coal Association will tell the resource company’s AGM climate change could destroy profits
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University College London under fire for sustainability institute funded by mining giant BHP Billiton, which faces protests at its London AGM
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Frank Timiș, chair of leading iron ore producer, arranges funds for acquisition from Cape Lambert Resources
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Oliver Wainwright: Sweden’s most northerly town is being relocated to avoid being swallowed up by the world’s largest iron-ore mine
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Grogonomics Now is not a good time for the housing construction boom to end