India-Afghanistan mining collaboration: exuberance to reality checks

The exuberance over India and Afghanistan collaborating in the minerals and metals industries was giving way to a reality check as revealed during Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s three-day Indian visit, which ended on Wednesday. Ongoing...

SA may overtake Australia as India’s second-largest coal supplier

India’s rankings of its most preferred source of coal imports were expected to change dramatically this year, with South Africa poised to emerge as the second-largest supplier, officials in the world's largest coal miner, State-controlled Coal...

India's SAIL sees 30% jump in coking coal imports post expansion

Steel Authority of India could see an up to 30% rise in its coking coal imports to 13-million tonnes post capacity expansion, its spokeswoman said. SAIL, with an annual capacity of about 14-million tonnes, is the largest steel producer in India,...

Odisha warned that new legislation could cripple standalone miners

The provincial government of Odisha’s move to limit mining lease renewals to captive mining would sound the death knell for independent mining, while downstream users would be starved of raw material, industry experts say. A group of...

Alternative rare earths remain elusive three years after curbs

Following the global economic downturn of 2008/9 and a series of events and press reports in 2010 that coined what some referred to as the “rare-earths crisis”, there has been a glut of new rare earths projects starting out, yet few have...

Gold falls further in longest losing streak in four years

Gold fell on Friday for a seventh straight session, in its longest losing streak since March 2009, as the dollar strengthened and investors cut exposure to the precious metal, fearing further drops and choosing equities instead. Gold has lost...

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Critical alternative rare earths sources remain elusive well after 2010 curbs

Following the global economic downturn of 2008/09 and a series of events and press reports in 2010 that coined what some referred to as the “rare-earth crisis,” there has been a glut of new rare earths projects starting out, yet few have...

Environmental group says marine phosphate mining cannot be sustained by Namibia

The Namibian marine environment cannot accommodate a viable fishing industry and the disruptive exercise of marine phosphate mining, says environmental lobby group Swakopmund Matters. “Either one or the other can thrive – not both,” says the...

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