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Moderate Australian Hiring Intentions Reflect Employer Resilience

Jun 21, 2016

The latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey results show that the steady increase in hiring intentions in Australia will continue into the third quarter of 2016. Of the 1,500 public and private employers surveyed, 13 per cent indicated ...

Tags: Manpower Employment, hiring intentions

Women In Logistics: The Final Frontier

Mar 23, 2016

Amanda O’Brien. A groundbreaking and inspiring event will be taking place that challenges gender diversity and calls for an end to workplace bias by de-genderising industries and employment. Many countries worldwide, including ...

Tags: Women, Employment, Equality

Poland Planning to Export Coal From Stockpiles to Ukraine

Dec 15, 2015

Poland is planning to sell its hard coal stockpiles to Ukraine in order to raise cash to inject liquidity into the country's struggling state-owned coal miners, development minister Mateusz Morawiecki, said Monday. "There is a coal ...

Tags: coal, coking coal, anthracite

Synthetic Diamonds: Legitimize, Don’t Ostracize

Oct 27, 2015

Traders of mined diamonds are divided over how to best respond to the growth of their laboratory-grown counterparts. Last week, India’s Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) became the second exchange to ban trading of man-made diamonds, ...

Tags: man-made diamonds, Bharat Diamond Bourse

China Thermal Coal Import Demand to Fall Sharply

Sep 27, 2015

Chinese demand for seaborne-traded thermal coal will fall sharply from 2016, dragging prices down in its wake, analysts at Goldman Sachs said this week. In a report entitled The Tiger and the Dragon, the bank's analysts downgraded their ...

Tags: Thermal Coal, Coal, Coal Mining

Blinging Down Botswana's Economy

Sep 18, 2015

It’s a long way from New York’s Madison Avenue advertising agencies to Gaborone, but for Botswana a lot is riding on the success of the ad campaign De Beers will launch in the coming weeks. Like oil-exporting countries now ...

Tags: Botswana's Economy, Overseas shipments

A Sustained Diamond Supply Surplus

Sep 15, 2015

Don’t be fooled by the pitch that touts shortage as a reason for investors to plough dollars into the diamond mining sector. In fact, like many other commodities in the world today, the diamond industry is also drowning in a supply ...

Tags: Diamond Supply, diamond mining

The Presidents' Meeting Highlighted Five Challenges Facing The Diamond Industry

Jun 25, 2015

The Presidents’ Meeting that took place in Tel Aviv this week highlighted five challenges facing the diamond industry, but the issue of profitability was the most pressing. Constituents of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses ...

Tags: diamond industry, mining

South Africa Looking for China's Help to Quicke Industrialization

Jan 16, 2015

South Africa is looking for help from China to help it move up the value chain and quicken its industrialization, says Rob Davies, minister of trade and industry of South Africa. Xi met with South African President Jacob Zuma as one of ...

Tags: manufacturing capacity, industrialization

The Volvo FH and Volvo Fh16 Are Now Available in a Version with an Extra-Low Roof

Dec 25, 2014

The Volvo FH and Volvo FH16 are now available in a version with an extra-low roof, designed specifically for mining operations with high demands on productivity, and for applications with a crane operating above the cab roof. "Certain ...

Tags: Low Sleeper Cab, Volvo

The World Diamond Conference That Took Place Last Week in New Delhi

Dec 22, 2014

The World Diamond Conference that took place last week in New Delhi, India, created a buzz in the industry that, frankly, needed a bit of a pick-up considering the state of the market. It not often that two heads of state attend a diamond ...

Tags: Diamond Trade, Arts

Total Fixed Asset Investments in China Amounts to RMB 35.7787 Trillion in Jan-Sep

Oct 22, 2014

In the January-September period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 35.7787 trillion ($5.83 trillion), up 16.1 percent year on year, as announced by China's National ...

Tags: mining sector, fixed asset

Ethiopia Is Not Much Known in The Mining World

Oct 16, 2014

Ethiopia is not much known in the mining world. Except for the small-scale gold, tantalum and gemstones exports, the country is not among the list of major mineral exporters in Africa. There are no large-scale mines in Ethiopia. The only ...

Tags: Ethiopia, Mining Sector, Electronics

Total Fixed Asset Investments in China Amounted to RMB 30.5786 Trillion

Sep 16, 2014

In the January-August period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 30.5786 trillion ($4.96 trillion), up 16.5 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau ...

Tags: rural households, fixed asset investments

Diamonds Development in Global Market

Sep 11, 2014

The diamond industry needs to support programs to uplift its vast artisanal mining sector. The more than 1.5 million diamond diggers – predominantly in West Africa – and their estimated 10 million dependents, remain the most ...

Tags: Diamonds

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