The sharemarket started 2013 with a bang as US lawmakers agreed a budget deal to avoid the worst of the so-called fiscal cliff that had threatened to derail the world's biggest economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 1.2 per cent at ...
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The Afghanistan Ministry of Mines said Tuesday it opened its final bid for the Badakhshan gold deposit, located in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, Dow Jones Commodities reports. Mines Minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, said on ...
Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Copper, Gold, Iron Ore, Lithium, Oil, Rare Earth
Reuters reported that a new deepwater port on Australia's Indian Ocean Coast was supposed to be the showpiece of the country's decade long mining boom and open up a huge new iron ore belt to export to Asian markets. But twice in the past ...
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Mining companies and investors including some heavyweight industrial combines in China are pouring into the region in a quest for iron ore, driving a railway building and mining boom whose worth JPMorgan Chase & Co recently estimated at USD ...
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The government of Afghanistan announced its preferred bidders for three of its four current mineral tenders with a consortium backed by City of London banker Mr Ian Hannam former BHP Billiton CEO Chip Goodyear and Poland’s ...
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Business confidence in Australia in October showed a slight improvement, according to the latest Roy Morgan Research 'Business Confidence' survey. The increase in confidence was a result of an improved outlook for both the individual ...
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WHILE the lucrative mining sector might be attracting attention as the industry of employment choice for young people, Australia’s agricultural industry is crying out for skilled young people. The agricultural machinery sector, for ...
For a long time, Americans have channeled their fear about China's factories into an exasperated, four-word refrain: They're stealing our jobs! By offering low-wage competition to U. S. workers, the Chinese picked off low-end manufacturing ...