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Child Gold Miners Work in Hazardous Conditions in Tanzania 坦桑尼亚儿童黄金矿工工作条件危险 The international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, HRW, warned children as young as eight years old are working in small-scale g
The Federal Government has been accused of misusing taxpayer money to fund its mining super profits tax campaign. The Government exempted itself from its own guidelines to run the ad blitz to counter what it says is misleading information from the mi
The Prime Minister Julia Gillard leaves on her week-long Asian tour later this morning. Her first stop will be Japan, where she hopes to visit tsunami-affected areas. Its then on to South Korea and then China, where she hopes to kick along negotiatio
By Kari Barber Dakar, Monrovia 18 August 2007 Many families living along Liberia's coast are moving to safer areas after flooding and high tides destroyed scores of homes and structures by the sea. Some say mining beach sand, which is used for buildi
By Phuong Tran Dakar 14 January 2007 Miners handle stones on a hilltop of Mbola mines in Democratic Republic of Congo (File photo) The collapse of a diamond pit mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month, in which 15 people were repo
By Yi Suli Tombstone, Arizona 26 September 2007 Tombstone, Arizona, in the southwestern U.S. offers a glimpse at America's old West where prospectors could become rich overnight and lawlessness and violence were a way of life. Today, this popular tou
By Jeff Swicord Washington 18 May 2007 Entrance to mine rescue chamber It is being called revolutionary in the field of mine safety. A West Virginia company has unveiled a new piece of technology that the company says could prevent most deaths from m
By George Dwyer Washington, DC 06 March 2006 watch Mining Workers Mexican mine worker Thousands of miners in Mexico have begun returning to work after walking off the job last week to protest working
By Phil Mercer Sydney 21 January 2008 Australia's wool industry faces a chronic lack of sheep shearers. They are being lured to better paid jobs in the booming mining sector, just as demand from China, which buys about 60 percent of Australian wool,
'Cash Mob' Phenomenon Supports Local Business What do you get when you mix a store's need for more business with enthusiastic local consumers? A cash mob. Organized through social media, the phenomenon is based on the concept of a flash mob, where la
By Malcolm Brown Washington, D.C. 24 July 2007 The future of coal has become a hot topic in the United States. The debate sets concerns about global warming against the desire to reduce America's dependence on foreign energy sources. With the United
S. Africa Shooting Exposes Miners' Living Conditions The sound of machines at the mine can be heard from the miners' shacks, in the what is called the platinum belt. It is here, 100 kilometers west of South Africa's capital city Pretoria, that 80 per
Australian shares have retreated from yesterdays five-year highs with the biggest losses, the healthcare and resources stocks. The All Ordinaries index ended down 0.4 percent, as did the ASX 200 index. However, the market is up one per cent for the w
By Stephanie Ho Washington 04 January 2006 The sole survivor in a coal mining disaster in the U.S. state of West Virginia was the youngest of the 13 miners who were trapped 80 meters underground, foll
This is certain increase in amount of ever people willing to put into constructing monuments. 270 kilometers away in Norfolk, evidence of prehistoric mining operation shows the extraordinary efforts the Neolithic people made to meet the demand for hi
By Jade Heilmann Dakar 14 December 2007 Police in Eastern Sierra Leone have opened fire to disperse a group of demonstrators in the kimberlite mining town of Koidu, where local residents say they have not been compensated for environmental damages fr
Greymouth families who have lost their husbands, fathers, sons or brothers in the Pike River Coal mine, are facing more despair. It now seems unlikely that the bodies of the 29 miners will be recovered soon. Another explosion occurred yesterday and t
The company which owns the Pike River Coal Mine is in receivership. This is another disaster for Greymouth. If you have not followed this news story before, click on coal under Tags to listen to other items in December and November on the Pike River
The Anglo-Australian mining giant, BHP Billiton, has given its most optimistic assessment of the commodities markets since the global economic downturn. The company says surging demand from China for iron ore shipments will lift the mining industry,
Chinas National Bureau of Statistics has released data on the average annual income in 2015. There seems to be a clear sector difference. And contrary to expectations, the slowing economy didnt seem to drag down salary growth for certain industries.