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Stornoway Secures Nearly $1 Billion to Build Quebec's First Diamond Mine

2014-04-11 12:19:08| Grocery - Topix.net

Quebec's first diamond mine moved a step closer to becoming a reality yesterday when Stornoway Diamond announced the arrangement of a series of transactions aimed at funding its Renard project through to production.

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Australia: Maules Creek coal mine divides local families and communities

2014-04-09 09:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The tiny chopper quivered in the wind. It hovered at 300 metres and 75-year-old Uncle Neville Sampson, a Gomeroi elder, surveyed the Leard state forest below. Lush box gum woodland, the land that Sampsons ancestors have walked for thousands of years, stood proud. But eventually, as the chopper zipped along, the terrain gave way to the mine construction. For Uncle Neville it was both breathtaking and heartbreaking in equal measure. The Maules Creek mine, Australias largest coal mine under construction,...

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Apple's iPhone 6 Just Created a Gold Mine, Here's How to Profit

2014-04-06 06:53:08| Semiconductors - Topix.net

Over the last 12 months, the stock has skyrocketed from just over $3 per share to the most recent close of $18.67, representing a whopping 516% increase.

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Two Arrested Protesting Strip Mine as Community Battles Worlds Largest Coal Company

2014-03-28 14:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: While Peabody Energy may have hired a notorious public relations firm to hawk its international ad campaign, a village trustee and her rural farming community have exposed the devastating legacy of the worlds largest coal company near its historic Illinois beginnings. Meet Judy Kellen and the courageous community of Rocky Branch in Saline County, IL, whose battle to save their farms, homes and cherished Shawnee Hills from Peabody Energys proposed strip mine expansion is turning out to be one of...

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