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California Open Pit Lockout (boraxminers.com)ILWU Local 30 who work at the US Borax/Rio Tinto mine in Boron, where we operate the largest open-pit mine in California
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2007 Archives: Brazilian People Say "No" to Private Mining (americas.irc-online.org)In a plebiscite organized by 200 social organizations, almost four million people demanded that the CVRD, the second largest mining company in the world, be put back in the hands of the Brazilian government.
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3.Bulkers: New twist in Vale tale (www.marinelog.com)
Reuters is reporting that Chinese shipbuilder Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries has won a $484 million deal to build four ships for Oman Shipping Co. The report says that they will carry exports from an iron ore pellet plant being built by Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce in northern Oman and expected to begin production in the second half of 2010
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Vale takes delivery of new tug (www.marinelog.com)Vale takes delivery of new tugBrazilian mining giant Vale recently held a naming ceremony for the harbor assist tug Sossego. Built in the Detroit Shipyard in Santa Catarina, it is the first of 51 vessels that Vale has ordered at Brazilian yards.
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Launching an underground rail system | New Rail-Veyor system allows marginal mineralization to become economical (www.northernontariobusiness.com)It only seems fitting that Greater Sudbury would be the testing site for a new underground mine technology that could change the face of deep mining forever
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Blackfire adding threats to injury in Mexico:MiningWatch (www.miningwatch.ca)A coalition of Canadian organizations is condemning the threatened use of NAFTA by Blackfire Exploration to extract 800 million dollars from the impoverished Mexican state of Chiapas.
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Mine Mill Local 598 - Canadian Auto Workers | CAW (www.minemill598.com)Local Xstrata union
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WORKERS BLOCKADE VALE INCO SITES IN SUDBURY (mollymew.blogspot.com)Last Wednesday striking workers of United Steel Workers Local 6500 temporally blockaded several corporate sites of Vale Inco across the Sudbury region.
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Confronting Vale not wise for students - John J. Lundrigan Sr. Retired supervisor: safety/training Sudbury (www.thesudburystar.com)No person likes to cross anybody's picket line, but when it is your job, it must be done.
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Western Federation of Miners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org)The Western Federation of Miners (WFM) was a radical labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia.
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Indonesian nickel firm Inco's CEO to retire in March (www.miningweekly.com)The president director of Indonesian nickel firm PT International Nickel Indonesia said on Tuesday he will tender his resignation in March.
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Nationalization talk puts miners on edge - (www.theglobeandmail.com)Proposal by influential youth wing of South Africa's ruling party causing anxiety among Canadian and other foreign mining firms
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AnMar Mechanical & Electrical Contractors Ltd. (www.anmarmechanical.com)Operating from our new 70,000 sq. Ft. Facility and with our partner companies, Talos Steel a specialty machining company and CASTEC Inc. that specializes in refractory linings and furnace rebuilds we service the metals industry and heavy industrial on a world-wide basis.
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William Day Construction Environmental Registry (www.ebr.gov.on.ca)This proposal is for a new Certificate of Approval (Air) for William Day Construction Limited, located in Sudbury, Ontario.The facility is a mobile crushing plant used to process ore, gravel or blasted rock material.
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Vale Inco to ramp up production at Coleman, Creighton mines (www.thesudburystar.com)Vale Inco is going to increase its mining activity locally in order to provide more feed for its back-in-operation Copper Cliff Smelter complex."We did send out a notice (Monday) to managers to cascade the rest of their staff," Vale Inco spokesman Steve Ball said Tuesday
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Sudbury business advances deep mine technology with Vale Inco | (www.northernontariobusiness.com)By 2010, Kelly Lake may be the site of a brand new technologically advanced Vale Inco mine
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Strike at World’s Largest Nickel Mine (www.socialistproject.ca)In France’s south Pacific colony of New Caledonia, a small delegation of Vale Inco strikers from Sudbury, in Northeastern Ontario, most of them Franco-Ontarians, met in October with the union at the island’s Vale Inco nickel mine, due to open in 2010 although it threatens a UNESCO nature reserve.
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In an era of climate change, energy experts often talk about nuclear power as a carbon-neutral source of electricity compared with coal-generated electricity.
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Vale Inco Newfoundland and Labrador (www.thesudburystar.com)Vale Inco's decision to resume production in Voisey's Bay during a strike is an in-your-eye gesture to Steelworkers, says the director of the union for Ontario and the Atlantic provinces.
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Non-striking workers to restart mine in Voisey's Bay, N.L. a (ca.news.yahoo.com)The company said Monday it will begin training non-striking employees to do the work of striking miners as both sides in the labour dispute continued to accuse each other of bad-faith bargaining.
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Vale Inco restarts smelter operations during strike (www.thesudburystar.com)It's official.Vale Inco Ltd. has resumed partial production at the Copper Cliff Smelter Complex, in the seventh month of a strike by its production and maintenance workers.
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New consultations to begin on Mining Act (www.fftimes.com)Broad-based consultations with First Nation and Métis communities, mineral industry stakeholders, and interested members of the public will be held from January-June in many northern communities
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Vale Inco starts activities in Yemen (www.thesudburystar.com)Vale Inco, the second largest mining company in the world, has started activities in Yemen, exploring copper and nickel.
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: Australia and Globally (lifeincva.blogspot.com)Uranium is unstable – it decays into slightly lighter elements, which are also unstable and further decay. The process of decay releases energy and a small atomic particle, and is known as radioactivity.
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Vale Inco files suit against nine striking workers (www.thesudburystar.com)
Vale Inco Ltd. has taken the unprecedented step of suing nine individual striking Steelworkers for damages ranging from $75,000 to $120,000 for alleged actions on picket lines.
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