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Brazil mine accident puts tailings ponds safety back in the hot spotThe next time a mining company decides against dry-stacking as a too-costly alternative to tailings ponds, its directors and shareholders may want to consider what a tailings pond...

The price of iron ore fell to within shouting distance of all-time lows on Tuesday as worries about oversupply continue to dog the market and steel prices in top consumer China fall to record lows. Benchmark 62% Fe import...

The Norwegian mining subsidiary of Australia's Northern Iron Ltd will file for bankruptcy by the end of the day, Northern Iron told a new conference on Wednesday. Sydvaranger Gruve AS, which according to its website had 400 employees, was...

A Major Drilling RC Schramm drill rig in operation at the Bronze Fox Copper Project during June.By John Miller, editor, The ASIA Miner KINCORA Copper is adopting a common sense approach to surviving in difficult global economic conditions and...

Eldorado-Jinfeng-Open-PitA panorama of the Jinfeng project in Guizhou province. It is an open pit and underground gold mine. Photos courtesy of Eldorado Gold.ELDORADO Gold is one of few foreign mining companies that have been successful in China - the...

WHILE the number of mine worker fatalities has been trending downward for the past 25 years the proportion of accidents involving mine machinery and mobile equipment continues to cause concern. Safety authorities have long voiced uneasiness about the interaction...

VEDANTA’S Hindustan Zinc Ltd, which is one of the world’s largest integrated producers of zinc-lead, recently received high-fidelity training simulators from ThoroughTec Simulation. Their Rampura Agucha operation in Rajasthan, India, took delivery of three fourth-generation CYBERMINE simulators to assist...