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Turkey and Iran may jointly build two petrochemical units, state-run Press TV news channel reported, citing Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister.

Iran and Turkey are discussing construction of an urea and an ammonia unit in the industrial hub of Assaluyeh in southern Iran, Press TV said, citing Abdolhossein Bayat, who is also the managing director of National Iranian Petrochemical Co.

Talks include construction of a petrochemical plant in Miyandoab in western Azerbaijan province that can produce 539,000 tons of petrochemical products annually, the TV station reported.

Bayat, who...

Fights about proper ownership of natural resources, especially mined product, have been a feature of Australian public policy debate since early settlement. Lack of consultation, arbitrariness and an overweening and greedy government famously caused the Eureka rebellion.

Fast forward to today, we have all these ingredients minus the muskets, plus retrospectivity, sovereign risk, slavering international competitors such as Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa, and a growing capital strike.

Much of the future impact of the Rudd government’s new mining tax is thought to fall on...

Xinhua news agency reported, mining company Tibet Mineral Development focus on developing lithium mining project in Salt Lake. Lithium mining project is estimated to have reserves of lithium carbonate to reach 2.4 million tons. The company plans to produce lithium carbonate in the first phase of 5,000 tons and the second phase of lithium production can reach 20,000 tons.

Century Peak Metals Holdings Corporation is entering into negotiations with Guangdong Province Gold Corporation on drilling contracts over existing and prospective mining properties of CPMHC’s subsidiaries.

Canadian mining companies are facing allegations of abuse and assault on local citizens in dozens of developing nations.

The companies say they have done nothing wrong – mining copper, gold and other metals brings only prosperity to these poor regions.

South America is a continent whose richness in natural resources became legendary through myths such as El Dorado or the Emerald Mountain. Neither of these ever existed, of course, but today the continent produces antimony, bauxite, coal, cobalt, copper, gold, iron-ore, lead, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, phosphates, platinum, silver, tantalum, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, zinc and zirconium, plus oil and gas, as well as a wide range of precious and semiprecious stones.

To encourage investment in exploration and exploitation of the minerals for the development of mineral based industry in the North Eastern States, a two-day Investors’ Meet and Conference on Development of Mineral Resource and Mineral Based Industry in North Eastern Region began in Guwahati toady.

Delta Mining and Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce that it is close to completing its due diligence on the Delcer Buttes property and has started to work out the parameters for a land agreement with Amigo Inc.