Sino Gold Mining Ltd says its operations and workforce in China have not been directly impacted by the earthquake in Sichuan Province.
Sino Gold will donate approximately $100,000 in essential equipment to the earthquake relief effort, the company said on Monday.
The equipment includes 70 portable gas power generators, 200 sets of hand torches and 70 megaphones, [...]

China holds large reserves of metal deposits but the quality of most of the deposits is low, state media reported on Wednesday, citing preliminary survey results from the country’s geological institutes and resource agencies.
China plans to complete an assessment of the country’s mineral resources and set up a mining plan for some provinces in 2007, [...]

The proven iron ore reserves in China are 59.39 billion tons, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources.
The iron content of the reserves is 30 to 35 percent on average and 41.5 billion tons among the total reserves is magnetite, the ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site.
It noted that China [...]

The State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) on Friday published a list of another 1,053 unsafe coal mines that must be closed, after having closed 651 this year.
The list includes 220 coal mines in Hunan, 207 in Sichuan, 140 in Chongqing, 80 in Shaanxi, 79 in Guizhou, 64 in Xinjiang and 51 in Liaoning.
Small coal [...]

The Chinese company Bosai Minerals Group Co., Ltd is the preferred bidder for the Omai Bauxite Mining Company Limited (OBMI) at Linden, according to sources.
Bosai, a privately-owned Group has interests covering industrial minerals manufacturing and international trading. Its main products are metal-grade Alumina, Brown Fused Alumina, Calcined Bauxite, Coke and Ferro-Alloys, according to its website.
At [...]

The Chinese company Bosai Minerals Group Co., Ltd is the preferred bidder for the Omai Bauxite Mining Company Limited (OBMI) at Linden, according to sources.
Bosai, a privately-owned Group has interests covering industrial minerals manufacturing and international trading. Its main products are metal-grade Alumina, Brown Fused Alumina, Calcined Bauxite, Coke and Ferro-Alloys, according to its website.
At [...]

All 47 miners trapped after an explosion in a northern Chinese coal mine were confirmed dead after rescuers found the last body Thursday, a news agency said.
This brought the death toll from two coal mine accidents in Shanxi province in recent days to 81, a day after rescuers at another mine mishap said all 34 [...]

China has raised the capital threshold for projects converting coal to liquid fuel to brake a possible overheating in the coal-chemical industry, as excessive development of the fossil fuel pollutes the environment and strains the water supply.
On July 7, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s industrial watchdog, issued a circular requiring local governments [...]