This issue of IMPN includes details of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce’s (CVRD) approved investment budget of $11billion for 2008, the largest annual investment program ever undertaken by CVRD or by any mining company in the world. The completion of the planned investments should lead to a significant increase in CVRD’s main products. In the […]

Northern Energy has welcomed plans by inland rail promoter Australian Transport and Energy Corridor to build a rail link between Moree and Toowoomba as a further boost for Northern’s Ashford coal project and potential new exploration areas.
This new cross-border rail link is proposed to connect with the Surat Basin railway, from Toowoomba to Gladstone, which […]

Canadian-based Gabriel Resources has thrown its weight behind the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) ‘Decent Workforce Agenda’, which promotes opportunities for people to find decent and productive work conditions of freedom, equity, security, and human dignity.
At a meeting held by the Centre for American Progress Action Fund in Columbia, Gabriel CFO and Vice President Richard Young […]

Alcan today officially joined the Rio Tinto group following the successful offer for Alcan by a subsidiary of Rio Tinto.  The expanded aluminium product group, formed by the combination of Alcan and Rio Tinto’s existing aluminium assets, today became the new global leader in aluminium and will be known as Rio Tinto Alcan. The two CEOs, […]

Responsible mining is capable of creating general economic welfare for its host communities in Africa which could long survive the mines themselves, says Randgold Resources chief executive Mark Bristow. Speaking at a media briefing on Monday, Bristow said the utilisation of natural resources was often the best and sometimes the only way of alleviating […]