GLG News by Mining Experts

    Presently India produces around 430 MT of coal and imports  50 MT per year. India will need over 700 MT of coal by year 2011-12. Since the production in existing mines is not witnessing any significant growth, the delay in  execution greenfield...

Liberal politicians and overpaid executives seem to have exactly the same solution to all problems whether they be environmental, cultural, or scientific: Throw somebody elses's money at them. Isn't it obvious that the presently touted solutions to old problems may not be the correct ones? Isn't it...

Most of the temperature rise since the last ice age occurred before the Industrial Revolution according to studies of Icelandic coring. Even though countries such as India and China are not signatory to any global warming treaty they are pursuing a course of cleaning up their pollutants. India for instance...

Contrary to the hedge fund, Harbinger's, belief that Cleveland-Cliffs takeover bid of Alpha was to put Cleveland-Cliffs itself out of reach of potential acquirers, my first thought on this deal was: which steel company is now going to buy this newly formed company?  These are two companies that...

As James Carville might say to GM's Bob Lutz, "It's the battery, stupid, we don't have enough reliability and longevity data to put it on the market. That'll take at least five years after we finally choose a specific technology based in great part on initial reliability and longevity testing which...

Reuter's has now reported the official statement of a ranking official of China's Ministry of Economics, http://gateway.andohs.net/player/?sid=826&nid=2920 , to the effect that China's treasury must follow Chinese 'private' business and use its immense reserves of US dollars to obtain ownership...

Wind turbines can be used to produce electricity but in order to do so they must use permanent magnets and batteries. Building even the 'modest' 17 gigawatts  of wind power generated electricity that Texas alone projects would add so much demand for rare earth metals as to be impossible to...

In order to maximize the range of a hybrid or all electric car it is important to minimize the drain on the battery from any load but that of the drive train.

This article seems mostly nonsense to me. It is poorly researched and seems to conflate different solar technologies and their problems with one another in a purposefully confusing way.

Minor metal byproducts of major 'base' metals, which were discarded as waste or for which the mine did not get paid by the refiner are rapidly growing in importance and may represent enough added value to allow for the re-opening of marginal mines.