| These selected stories represent only a fraction of the news and analysis featured and updated all day on Mineweb.com - check out our home page www.mineweb.com for the rest of the news and expert analysis currently available. | | | | Control Risks SA MD, David Butler looks at the various elements at work in the current labour environment and their longer term impacts. | | | | | TOP STORIES | Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | In an upbeat presentation at the Denver Gold Forum, Rob McEwen forecast that gold is going to $5,000, while setting out the path forwards for the company which now bears his name - McEwen Mining. Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | Mining royalty and tax payments increased almost tenfold to $5.3 billion over a four-year period, a study commissioned by the Mining Association of Canada has revealed. Monday , 10 Sep 2012 | | Lack of funds for gold exploration for junior company's means mining may face a very challenging time trying to grow over the next 10 years, says gold guru Pierre Lassonde. Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | Qatar Holdings said Tuesday it has still to consider all of the implications of the deal before deciding whether or not to support Glencore's revised $36bn offer. Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | Hopes that $150bn worth of Chinese infrastructure spending will boost demand for the metal helped spot iron ore post its biggest ever gain on Monday Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | Roughly 10,000 striking platinum miners marched from one Lonmin shaft to another on Monday, threatening to kill strike breakers Monday , 10 Sep 2012 | | Realising the dangers of a Chinese monopoly, countries like India, Japan and Vietnam have started collaborating on REEs, with India pushing through production at Odisha and Vizag. Monday , 10 Sep 2012 | | Australia's Queensland state announced Tuesday it will raise taxes on coal miners in a bid to generate as much as A$1.6bn in extra revenue. Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | According to the platinum miner, workers have demanded a second wage increase this year, that would effectively see a doubling of their wages in six months. Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | The Indigenous Yanomami people in the middle of an international investigation into a possible massacre in the Aamzon jungle have told officials and journalists that not killings took place Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | Senior producers needing to replenish depleted gold reserves will be looking to promising juniors to provide needed ounces, suggests Dave Goguen*. Interview with The Gold Report. Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | While the Italian government tried to avert the loss of more jobs, hundreds of workers from Alcoa's Sardinian smelter clashed with police to protest against the factory's closure. Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | According to the country's prime minister, the African country is planning to review its mining code and will undertake an audit of all existing mining contracts. Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | India's key iron ore mining state has suspended all operations, effective Tuesday after an expert panel uncovered "serious illegalities and irregularities Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | With another season of festivals rolling up, India Post has offered a special discount, despite the price of gold continuing on its northward journey and scaling fresh highs at the bullion market. Tuesday , 11 Sep 2012 | | The Korean resources firm has agreed to work with NunaMinerals to look for joint rare earth and other strategic mineral projects Monday , 10 Sep 2012 | | An endangered species listing for the western sage grouse is "a horrible, mean and nasty law and we don't want to go there," says the director of the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust. Monday , 10 Sep 2012 | | "Gold has definitely made a bottom and we've seen in a sense, a break out from the range to which gold was confined," GFMS's Philip Klapwijk says. | | David Hargreaves believes the dynamics are changing amongst the major miners, and the importance of choosing the right mineral is becoming ever greater. | | "The Chinese will buy a lot more gold over the next decade" | | The CPM Group's Erica Rannestad looks at the supply demand balance for platinum in light of the supply issues in SA and the continuing slowdown in Europe. | | |
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