Gold World Resources Inc. announces that the Company has engaged Mr. Don Arsenault to advise senior management on acquisitions and operational issues on gold projects in China. Mr. Arsenault is a Professional Mining Engineer from Queen’s University and holds an MBA from the University of Toronto.
Mr. Arsenault is eminently qualified for this position with 30 [...]

CHINA continues to chip away at the Australian iron ore duopoly, with two Chinese steel producers signing separate offtake contracts with the BHP Billiton offshoot and steel manufacturer, OneSteel.
Taking advantage of high steel prices and a reconfigured mill at Whyalla, OneSteel has signed 10-year hematite supply deals with Shanzi Haixin Iron & Steel Group for [...]

Chinese firms have bought a controlling stake in one of North Korea’s largest copper mines, Chinese and South Korean media have reported.
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Luanhe Industrial Group, based in north China’s Hebei province, last month signed a deal in Pyongyang giving it a 51-percent share in Hyesan Youth Cooper Mine, the state-controlled Tangshan Labor Daily said in a [...]

Ninety-six people were working in the Shuidong Coal Mine in Hebei province’s Yuxian County at the time of the 5:30 a.m. (1930 GMT Sunday) blast, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It said 79 escaped.
The cause of the blast was under investigation but was likely caused by explosives, Xinhua said.
China has world’s most dangerous coal [...]

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Companyâ„¢, today announced that Zhangjiakou Coal Mining Machinery Company Ltd. has selected and deployed PTC Pro/ENGINEER to develop its industry leading coal mining equipment. Zhangjiakou Coal Mining Machinery, based in the Hebei province (northern China), is one of the largest and most well-known manufacturers of special coal mining equipment [...]

China, which plans to judge its officials on improvements in energy efficiency, has published a list ranking its provinces by how much coal and electricity they use to generate each dollar of national income.
Some of the country’s developed areas used only one-fifth as much coal per unit of output last year as poor, remote Ningxia, [...]

Cleanup crews in northern China were scrambling Thursday to absorb 60 tons of toxic coal tar accidentally dumped into a river before it reaches a reservoir serving 10 million people, state media said.
The incident occurred Monday when a truck carrying the coal tar fell into the Dasha river in Shanxi province, the official Xinhua News [...]