Mozambique is ready for a major coking coal producer to be within the next three to five years, the coal industry accounts for 61% of the total value of the pipeline, Frost & Sullivan research associate Tawii Christy said on Wednesday. In a teleconference with mining investors, analysts, investment banks and other stakeholders, she said the total value of mining projects in seven commodities was $ 11.6 billion, of which the coal industry accounts for $ 7.1 billion. Read more
East Africa’s second largest economy of Tanzania plans to royalties on gold exports to increase by year-end continues to restructure mining sector. Tanzania plans to pay royalties on exports of gold to increase by the end of this year as it seeks to restructure the mining sector, Minerals and Energy Minister William Ngeleja said on Wednesday.
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Sometimes you find the answer to a problem right under your nose. That’s what Queensland’s mining industry seems to have done: some 140,000 skilled workers are needed over the next three years, a large, untapped pool of talent ready to step into the breach – women.
The phenomenon is known as gender segregation in employment, and it means that most women never even considered a career in mining, or some similarly male-dominated industry. Queensland’s “Women in Hard Hats’ initiative has been busy changing the $ 1.6 million since its launch in 2006.
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The price of gold rose above $ 1,500 an ounce on Wednesday for the first time, pushed higher by investors’ concerns about global inflation, debt and unrest in the Arab world.
Prices of other precious metals such as silver and platinum, have recently risen to what analysts call a flight to quality, when uncertainty about the economic and political outlook sends investors in assets that are considered to be safest.
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Tanzanian mining would be at an average of 7.7 percent growth for the next five years and more investment activity picking up, has an economic and business survey group said. The Business Monitor International (BMI) says in the Tanzania Mining Report Q2 2011 “that the expected uptake of the growth of the industry will be strengthened considerably by the coal mining. Read more
Singapore – Spot gold hovered around $ 1,370 on Friday, as investors await a key U.S. employment data later in the day report for clues on the health of the economy as the dollar traded company.
Some economists raised their forecasts after Thursday ADP report showed a surprise jump in private jobs number for December. A Reuters poll showed that payrolls probably increased by 175,000 in December, revised upward from 140,000.
“Gold is likely to consolidate ahead of non-farm payrolls data,” said Darren Heathcote, head of trading at Investec Australia. (more…)
The continuation of its renewable energy investments streak, Google Inc. has decided to put $ 280 million to the roof solar panels installed by Solar City project financing Inc., the Internet search giant largest biggest investment in clean energy so far.
The deal with San Mateo, California-based solar city is also the first investment from Google with respect to residential distributed solar, Rick Needham, Google’s director of green business, said in a statement. (more…)
TORONTO – Lundin Mining (LUN.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it rebounded to a profit in the first quarter from a year-before loss due to rising metal prices, but production was hurt by labor, technical and weather issues. The Toronto-based miner earned $38 million, or 7 cents a share, in the quarter ended March 31. That compared with a loss of $8.6 million, or 2 cents a share, a year earlier. (more…)
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