Earth's environmental crisis - a man made disaster Merinews UNTIMELY RAIN and floods in Australia, heavy snow in USA especially in Washington D.C and other eastern parts of the country are only a few indications of the environmental crisis our planet is facing. Some air pollutants have reduced the capacity of the atmosphere to filter out the sun's harmful ul...
Gold price lifts Harmony's Q2 earnings, output down Business Report | * Q2 headline EPS at 49 cents vs 12 cents loss in Q1 | Submit your comment | Harmony Gold Mining second quarter earnings were lifted by a rise in the price of gold and declining costs despite a drop in production, the South Africa-based company said on Monday. | Harmony posted headline earn...
Xstrata chief Mick Davis calls halt to growth through takeovers The Times | Mick Davis, chief executive of Xstrata, broke the hearts of investment bankers and lawyers across the City yesterday when he put the brakes on the mining company's aggressive deal-making. | Xstrata has grown rapidly since it floated in 2002, acquir...
Need to know: Audi boost ... BP revolt ... M&S makeover The Times | Economics | Sterling: The pound tumbled to an 8½-month low against the dollar as investors fled to the safety of the greenback amid concern about the continuing fiscal difficulties of some eurozone countries. | UK housing market: Activity sl...
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Silver stocks smashed and bloodied Mineweb JOHANNESBURG - | What kind of investor gets mixed up with primary silver stocks, a global equities subsector that over time experiences some of the wildest gyrations in...
Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker The Guardian | Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Phot...
Gold Fields in talks to increase number of shifts Business Report | By Lucky Biyase and Reuters | Submit your comment | Gold Fields is in talks with the government and organised labour to look at ways of making up for production lost durin...
Iran plans major nuclear expansion over next year The Star | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran says it will start producing higher-grade nuclear fuel on Tuesday and add 10 uranium enrichment plants over the next year in a nuclear expansion sure to stoke tensions with the West. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, looks on while attending a news conference in Tehran September 29, 2009. (REUTER...
Oil near $72 amid US cold snap, Iran tensions Kansas City Star More News | Oil prices rose near to $72 a barrel Monday in Asia after hitting a two-month low last week, boosted by tensions over Iran's nuclear program and persistently cold weather in the U.S. northeast. | Benchmark crude for March delivery was up 56 cents at $71.75 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantil...
Alexander wants new limits on coal emissions Knox News | WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander urged Congress on Thursday to move ahead with tough new restrictions on emissions from coal-fired power plants instead of waiting for passage of climate change legislation to clean up the nation's dirty air. | Alexander, R-Maryville, and U.S. Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., have filed a bill that, if approved, w...
