He was brought out of the darkness of the Sago Mine in the middle of the night, comatose and battered — and straight into the unyielding glare of unwanted fame.
But today, nearing the anniversary of the Jan. 2 explosion and 41-hour entrapment that killed 12 of his friends, Randal McCloy Jr. is keeping a low [...]

From major economic development announcements and projects in terms of two ethanol plants to the nearly completed expansion of the Wells County Library and state accolades to Norwell students, Wells County experienced good times in 2006.
From the untimely and tragic deaths of several Wells County residents to the closing of an Ossian manufacturing plant that [...]

MINING COMMUNITIES in Ghana have called on the government to stop giving out new concessions to multi-national mining companies for surface mining until the “mess” caused by the existing ones were cleared off.
They indicated that the untold hardships which were the resultant effects of the activities of the mining companies were so enormous and appalling [...]

Norwegian shipbuilder Aker Yards said Monday it had signed a 320-million-euro deal with Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel over four container/cargo ships for arctic operations and an option for a fifth newbuilding.
The newly contracted vessels are to be built by Aker’s German shipyards, not the Helsinki one that delivered MS Norilskiy Nickel, the prototype ship, [...]