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When the 2000-plus strong crowd of Australia’s mining industry came together at the 2010 Diggers & Dealers conference, held from August 1—3 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, there were a couple of key subjects on everyone’s agenda—most notably the threat of the MRRT (Mining Resource Rent Tax) and ongoing resource demand
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2011 will be a year of celebration as Labrador City marks its 50th anniversary–the city that has been forged out of the earth, with the community being built out of and around the iron ore mining industry.Populated by people drawn initially for work in mining but who have stayed for ...
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In the spirit of avoiding the laborious and often misunderstood climate change opinions which are so often bantered about today, IRJ gets straight to the point as we explore whether nuclear power could be the key energy source the world is waiting for, in order to cut our carbon emissions ...
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The debate surrounding the renewal of the export of rough diamonds under the Kimberly Process from Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields—an area in Eastern Zimbabwe notorious for illicit mining and human rights abuses by the Zimbabwean security forces—was renewed in July 2010 by the World Diamond Council (the “Council”). Following the ...
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