Sentences with phrase «mining giant»

Moreover, it would explain why the Chinese mining giant has been so persistent in its demand for a hard fork.

The South African mining giant, needless to say, has a vested interest in promoting this «rule,» and there are obvious problems with the formula.

Industry Minister Tony Clement's decision to block Australian mining giant BHP Billiton's $ 38.6 billion bid for Saskatchewan's Potash Corp. leaves a policy vacuum that Prime Minister Stephen Harper must soon fill.

The chief executive of mining giant Rio Tinto will hand the reins over to the leader of the company's copper and coal division later this year.

The company raised $ 1.6 million from bitcoin mining giant Bitmain back in April.

ZURICH (Reuters)-- Chinese bitcoin mining giant Bitmain Technologies is expanding to Switzerland in a move that will be key to widening its reach, the group told a Swiss newspaper.

Papua New Guinea's government says it will sue Australian mining giant BHP Billiton for alleged environmental damage in the Western Province when the company was operating the country's largest copper mine in the 1990s.

Foran Mining is the most advanced junior in the region, and earlier this year they entered into a Technical Services Agreement with mining giant Glencore to complete a feasibility study.

Shares in gold hopeful Alicanto Minerals have surged on news the company has signed a $ US10 million ($ A14 million) earn - in agreement with Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold for its Arakaka project in Guyana.

Those locations were Waterloo Bridge, outside BP's head office in St James's Square, the Bank of England (where Ian Tomlinson died during April's G20 protests), Stratford tube station, near to the site of the 2012 Olympics, outside the offices of mining giant Rio Tinto in Moorgate and Stockwell tube station (where Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police in 2005).

Shares in Antipa Minerals have soared on news it has attracted backing from mining giant Rio Tinto, which plans to invest up to $ 60 million in the local explorer's Citadel gold - copper project.

Australian mining giants also took hits.

Ivan Glasenberg, the chief executive of mining giant Glencore, has resigned from his position as a director at Russian aluminum firm Rusal.

Executives at mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have recently told investors that they hope Belt and Road could revive China's metal exports, boosting demand for their iron ore.

The billionaire Rinehart and Wright families have scored a multi-million dollar High Court win against mining giant Rio Tinto over iron ore royalties derived from the Pilbara.

The Ethereum community has been stirred into action following reports that cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain has developed — and

With global mining giants like Barrick and Goldcorp setting up shop in the Yukon, the territory's famed mineral potential may finally come to realization.

Kerry O'Reilly, head of legal for corporate and marketing, and corporate secretary for mining giant Vale, also talked about the importance of law firms understanding the difference between «raw intelligence and emotional intelligence» when putting together a team for an RFP.

Diversified global mining giants Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) and BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), for example, are paying base dividends based on cash flow.

But operations were strictly Canadian until 2005, when new executives with connections to Noranda agreed to a joint venture with the former Canadian mining giant in Turkey — which was liberalizing its mining industry as part of ongoing efforts to join the European Union.

London - based mining giant Anglo American and Vancouver - based Northern Dynasty are partners in the project.

The bid for the Canadian nickel and gold producer comes in the form of an all - cash offer for all of LionOre's issued and outstanding shares, the Switzerland - based mining giant said.

The reported consortium of the International Aluminium Partners was Brazilian Mining giant VALE and Norsk Hydro Aluminium Company of Norway.

Canadian mining giant Teck Resources, for instance, recently shelved plans to revive its Quintette coal mine, while Walter Energy decided to close its Wolverine mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

Shares of most mining companies that trade in North America posted gains during the first four days of this week, with silver producers especially strong as the metal hit an 11 - month high and gold - mining giant Newmont Mining Corp. aided by an earnings beat.

Newly formed Vancouver company Hut 8 hopes to dwarf them both by eventually controlling 60 MW of power, and it is partnering with Bitcoin mining giant Bitfury Group to do it.

The Palaeo - Anthropological Scientific Trust (PAST), launched with donations from mining giants Anglo American and De Beers, among others, hopes to attract regular funds from big business to support a range of activities, from excavations and exploration to the training of palaeo - anthropologists and encouragement of «archaeo - tourism» to South Africa's spectacular cave sites.

It has been urged on by its own Chief Scientist, who also works for mining giant Rio Tinto.

Gold Road Resources has entered into a joint venture agreement with South African mining giant Gold Fields for its Gruyere project near Laverton, in a deal worth $ 350 million plus royalties.

A MOVE by mining giant North Limited to slash about $ 100 million from its balance sheets has resulted in redundancies and operational restructuring by Pilbara iron ore miner Robe River Iron Associates.

The US embassy has been promoting ramped - up investment in Honduras» extractive industries, for instance, with US mining giant Electrum already planning a US$ 1 billion investment.

Back in August 2015, the US coal mining giant Alpha Natural Resources filed for bankruptcy, facing billions in debt.

Thornton is not trying to fulfil Munk's vision of turning Barrick into a diversified, empire - building mining giant with operations around the world.

Since November, their majority owners (multinational mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, respectively) both have commenced reviews of their diamond operations, effectively putting both mines up for sale.

Mining giant Woodside Petroleum will expand its presence off the Moroccan coast after entering into a contract with the country's national oil company for a licence to explore another block of the Doukkala basin.

Here's a familiar storyline: a foreign mining giant tries to take control of a large domestic potash company, sparking a nationalistic uproar in defence of what is deemed a strategic resource.

«Options Action» trader Michael Khouw goes deep on copper amid some bearish options activity in mining giant Freeport - McMoRan.

In 1996, he played mining giants Inco and Falconbridge off one another and later sold his company, Diamond Fields Resources, which owned a massive nickel deposit in Labrador, to Inco for $ 4.3 - billion.

Mining giants Centamin, Antofagasta and Fresnillo were all trading more than 1 percent lower.

South African diamond mining giant De Beers is to extend its dominance of the international diamond market with a C$ 167 million hostile bid to acquire a majority shareholding in the Snap Lake diamond project, in the Canadian North West Territories.

Mining giants such as Falconbridge and Inco were bought out.

On Friday, May 22nd, 2009, while Canadian mining giant Goldcorp held its annual shareholder's meeting in Vancouver, hundreds of community members from San Miguel Ixtahuacán, affected by Goldcorp's Marlin Mine operations in their territories, held a protest march through the streets of Guatemala City.

Previously De Bortoli's stockmarket plays had been a wind in its sails, with profits from its stock trading eclipsing wine earnings in 2011, but a series of poor investment decisions, including a huge exposure to collapsed North Queensland mining giant Kagara, has shunted the Griffith - based wine group deep into the red.

Follow @BizReviewAU Mining giant Rio Tinto is bringing the 4G network to its existing operation sites in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, the Australian Financial Review reported...

The first job facing PanAust managing director Gary Stafford this morning to send $ 25 million to Swiss mining giant Glencore.

It applies to around 300 of Australia's biggest polluters, including mining giant BHP Billiton, Qantas Airways and BlueScope Steel, and 60 percent of the country's 550 million metric ton of annual emissions.

Last month he ran for a seat on mining giant BHP Billiton's board on a climate change ticket

Industry consolidation will be encouraged so that there will eventually be «two or three mining giants producing more than 100 million tons of coal per year and three to five companies that will produce more than 50 million tons per year, so that 75 percent of the coal output is churned out by major groups.»