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		<title>Govt aids fleeing miners</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=29854</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese gold miners in Ghana who hid in forests or locals&#8217; homes from a government crackdown are retreating with the help of representatives sent by the Chinese government and embassy. Officials with the Chinese embassy and Shanglin county of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where most of the miners are from, are rescuing miners trapped at different mining sites. Li Jun, an official from the Shanglin government&#8217;s office in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold miners held in Ghana</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry asks mine workers to adhere to local laws China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry on Thursday called on all Chinese citizens in Ghana to abide by local laws, after 124 Chinese workers allegedly involved in illegal mining were detained this week in Accra, the West African country&#8217;s capital. Shanglin&#8217;s mining tradition Shanglin, a State-level impoverished county in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, contributes around 90 percent of the Chinese miners in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese gold miners detained in crackdown by Ghana authorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) on Wednesday said 124 suspected Chinese illegal miners had been detained in Accra, the capital of the West African country. Francis Palmdeti, head of public affairs of the GIS, told Xinhua that the Chinese were involved in illegal gold mining in the central region of Ashanti, as well as in western and eastern regions. Representatives from the Chinese embassy in Ghana visited the detention house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large tungsten mine discovered in East China</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=29445</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 05:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geologists have discovered a large tungsten mine in east China&#8217;s Jiangxi Province, officials said Thursday. More than 1 million tonnes of tungsten and associated copper have been found at the mine in the Zhuxi mineral area of Fuliang County in the northeast part of the province, said Peng Zezhou, chief of the provincial geology and mineral resources exploration bureau. The Ministry of Land and Resources confirmed the discovery on Wednesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large gold mine discovered in Xinjiang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 06:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geological workers have discovered a large gold mine in northwest China&#8217;s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, officials said on Tuesday. With gold reserves of at least 53 tonnes, the mine in Xinyuan County in the Ili Valley is expected to have an economic value of 20 billion yuan (3.2 billion U.S. dollars), said Zeng Xiaogang, head of the region&#8217;s geology and mineral resources bureau. Covering a length of 3 km and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China and ASEAN to strengthen mining cooperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China and ASEAN countries signed seven mining cooperation agreements valued at about 16.3 billion yuan ($2.59 billion) during the China-ASEAN Mining Cooperation Forum and Exhibition over the weekend. The event, co-hosted by Chinese resource and commerce authorities and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region government, was held in Nanning, capital of Guangxi, from Friday to Sunday. The event, on the theme &#8220;technological cooperation and scientific development of the mining industry&#8221;, attracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faster move to set up huge rare earth groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHINA will establish large rare earth companies quickly as the government continues to regulate the industry that had been plagued by smuggling and illegal exploration. This year, the government will accelerate the formation of such large groups and continue to crack down on unauthorized exploration and mining, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement yesterday as it cited Vice Minister Su Bo&#8217;s comments made at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China leads worldwide mining and metals buys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China was the world&#8217;s most acquisitive nation in mining and metals in 2012 and is expected to continue to lead merger and acquisition (M&#38;A) activities in the sector in 2013, underscoring its counter-cyclical investment strategy, a report by a leading global consulting firm showed Tuesday. China saw 147 mining and metals deals completed worldwide in 2012 with a total value of $21.7 billion, accounting for 21 percent of the total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Govt backs energy, mining investment in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has reiterated its backing of Chinese companies investing in Africa, particularly in energy and mining industries where jobs can be created and local communities improved. Zhong Manying, director general of the Department of West Asian and African Affairs of the Ministry of Commerce, said on Wednesday that during the recent visit to the continent by President Xi Jinping, more than 20 economic and trade cooperation agreements were sealed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global miners keen to tap Chinese market</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global producers said they will continue to invest in China because the country&#8217;s urbanization and industrialization will continue to support iron ore demand. Fortescue Metals Group Ltd, Australia&#8217;s third-biggest iron ore producer, will invest $10 billion to expand its iron ore production capacity to meet the growing demand mainly from China, said the company&#8217;s CEO Neville Power on Sunday during the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference held in South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global miners keen to tap Chinese market</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28465</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global producers said they will continue to invest in China because the country&#8217;s urbanization and industrialization will continue to support iron ore demand. Fortescue Metals Group Ltd, Australia&#8217;s third-biggest iron ore producer, will invest $10 billion to expand its iron ore production capacity to meet the growing demand mainly from China, said the company&#8217;s CEO Neville Power on Sunday during the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference held in South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major rare earth group formed</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28409</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A major rare earth production corporation has been formed in east China&#8217;s Jiangxi province as part of efforts to boost the industry&#8217;s sustainable development. The state-owned Ganzhou Rare Earth Group Co, Ltd, based in the city of Ganzhou, was founded through the merging of its key subsidiary Ganzhou Rare Earth Mineral Industry Co, Ltd and some local rare earth companies, including Longnan Wanbao Rare Earth Co. Thirty-six percent of China&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar probe backs joint mine</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=27724</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese mining company involved in a controversial copper mine project in Myanmar Tuesday welcomed a parliamentary report which backed continued development of the project while recommending measures to amend it. In a statement sent to the Global Times, Wanbao Mining Ltd, which invested in the Letpadaungtaung copper mine project in northwestern Myanmar&#8217;s Sagaing region with its partner Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd, vowed to listen to the needs of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining for growth</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=27775</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transparency will help Chinese companies make more gains in Africa Africa has become one of the main destinations for overseas mining investment by Chinese companies, considering the continent accounts for more than two-thirds of untapped global ore resources. Population growth, an expanding middle-class and rapid urbanization in developing countries have contributed to a growing demand for commodities and also put pressure on existing supplies. This, to some extent, also explains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digging deeper</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=27720</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese investment in African mining industry comes in different forms and is crucial for both The relative slowdown in China&#8217;s economy was one of a number of factors casting a shadow over the recent Mining Indaba Conference in Cape Town. The mining sector in South Africa has other problems closer to home, including labor unrest and the threat of increasing government regulation. But the demand for resources from the world&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China world&#8217;s top gold producer for 6th year</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=27084</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China produced the most gold in the world in2012, making it the largest producer for the sixth straight year, latest industry association data showed. China&#8217;s gold output increased 11.66 percent from a year earlier to hit a record high of 403.05 tonnes in 2012, the China Gold Association said Wednesday. The output was almost 100 times that of 1949, when the country produced just 4.07 tonnes, the association said. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining giants blamed for soaring iron prices</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=26876</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent hike in prices of imported iron ore has been driven by dominant global mining firms which have made improper moves to support prices, Zhang Changfu, vice president and secretary-general of the CISA, said Thursday, calling for attention and efforts from relevant Chinese government departments to help maintain market fairness. Between late December 2012 and the middle of January, the cost of imported iron ore soared from $115 per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MCC loses $3.1b in Australia mine</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=26874</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shares of Metallurgical Corp of China (MCC), the country&#8217;s leading metallurgical conglomerate, dropped by 2.7 percent Thursday in Shanghai trading after the company reported an expected loss of 7.2 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) in 2012, including a loss of 3.1 billion yuan in Australia&#8217;s largest magnetite iron ore mine project. MCC was hired by CITIC Pacific, a steel and property company controlled by State-owned CITIC Group, to build the Sino [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chalco threatens legal action in Mongolia deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aluminium Corporation of China, or Chalco, said on Monday it will take legal action if Mongolia breaks its long-term coal supply contract. Mongolia&#8217;s state-owned company Erdenes-Tavan Tolgoi (E-TT), which owns the 7.5 billion-ton Tavan Tolgoi project, wants to renegotiate a 2011 coal supply deal worth $250 million with Chalco. E-TT last week delayed an IPO of up to $3 billion, blaming problems with infrastructure and the deal with Chalco, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 exports of rare earths drop by 3.5%</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decline in China&#8217;s 2012 rare-earth exports was caused by smuggling, weak external economic conditions and relatively high prices, insiders told the Global Times Tuesday. China&#8217;s rare-earth exports last year reached 16,265 tons, a drop of 3.5 percent compared to the year before, according to statistics released Tuesday by Hong Kong-based China Customs Statistics Information Service Center. The 2012 rare-earth export volume accounted for just 53 percent of the total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vale plans iron ore center in China</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=26577</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vale SA, the world&#8217;s second largest mining company, is considering setting up an iron ore distribution center in Zhanjiang port in South China&#8217;s Guangdong Province, industry sources said Tuesday. The distribution center would improve Vale&#8217;s access to its top market China, which has not allowed the company&#8217;s giant iron ore carriers, or Valemaxes, to berth at its ports after one vessel docked at Dalian port in December 2011. Vale built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar mine’s chances good</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese mining company targeted by a contentious local protest in northwestern Myanmar on Tuesday expressed confidence in the result of an independent investigation led by Myanmar&#8217;s opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi, hoping the probe could wind up the nearly three-month-old costly row. Dong Yunfei, a Yangon-based senior manager for Wanbao Mining Ltd, said that the investigation commission was expected to release its report on February 2, which would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Push Ups</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=26591</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Demand for iron ore has slumped amid decreased building, but prices for imports still flexed their muscles last year Prices for imported iron ore got quite a workout in 2012. The price soared from less than US$ 90 per ton in September to US$ 155 per ton in January. In December alone, it rose nearly US$ 40. &#8220;I felt deeply that iron ore prices are elusive and hard to judge,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APF Gold Mine Force makes transition</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=26217</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gold Mine Force of the Chinese People&#8217;s Armed Police Force (APF) has prospected dozens of tons of gold resources and tens of thousands of tons of metal resources, and completed thousands of square kilometers of regional geological and mineral exploration since its transitional development in 2012, the reporter learnt from the force in early January 2013. According to related arrangements by the State Council and the Central Military Commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barrick-China gold deal off</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=26178</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China National Gold Group Corp, the country&#8217;s largest gold producer, confirmed Wednesday that it has halted talks with Canada&#8217;s Barrick Gold, the world&#8217;s largest gold producer, over the possible takeover of Barrick&#8217;s unit in Africa, for the purpose of risk prevention. &#8220;We will not continue talks with Barrick Gold about the takeover after weighing the potential returns to our company. We decided to end the talks in order to avoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miners Going Overseas for All that Glitters</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25977</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As gold prices go higher, China&#8217;s largest gold mining companies are digging deeper for global business At every juncture, conversations among gold mining executives at the recent China Mining Conference in Tianjin turned toward a single topic: The quest for gold mines overseas. Owning a mine on foreign soil &#8220;primarily can increase (a mining company&#8217;s) gold reserves and make it more self-sufficient in terms of raw materials, to improve profitability,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Largest rare earth producer halts for 3rd month</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25857</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baosteel, China&#8217;s largest rare earth producer, announced on Tuesday that it had continued suspending smelting and separation work for the third month in an bid to counter recent falls in rare earth prices. Zhang Rihui, secretary of the Board of Baotou Steel Rare-Earth (Group) Hi-Tech, which is responsible for nearly half of the world&#8217;s light rare earth output, told media earlier that suspension of production is an effort to further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outflowing &#8216;mining&#8217; cash triggers concerns</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25773</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liu Yuxue left the mining industry five years ago and pumped his hefty proceeds into building roads and bridges in his hometown. It was inevitable, at the end, to take the money out of the coal industry, he said. As the northern province of Shanxi underwent a coal mining industry transformation, many coal barons, such as Liu, were forced out of the business and seeked new investment opportunities with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Gold to announce on African Barrick deal soon</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25753</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China National Gold Corp is set to make an announcement soon on its talks over buying a stake in African Barrick Gold, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing an executive at the company. African Barrick&#8217;s parent, the world&#8217;s top gold miner Barrick Gold Corp, had said in August that it was in talks with China Gold to sell all or part of its 74 percent stake in the African miner. A 74 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rio Tinto sells mine to Chinese-led consortium</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25620</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rio Tinto Plc, the world&#8217;s third-largest miner by market capitalization, has reached agreement to sell its 57.7 percent share in South Africa&#8217;s Palabora Mining Co for $373 million to a consortium led by Hebei Iron and Steel Group, China&#8217;s biggest steelmaker. Hebei&#8217;s share of that stake is 35 percent, while the other consortium partners are China&#8217;s General Nice Development Ltd (25 percent), and Tewoo Group Co Ltd (20 percent), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghana gold rush sours</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25557</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October, a 16-year-old Chinese national Chen Long was killed and 101 Chinese miners detained during a two-day joint operation by Ghanaian police and immigration officials. They were investigating illegal gold mining by foreigners in the town of Manso, 60 km from Kumasi, the country&#8217;s second-largest city. A few days later, the detainees were released. Forty-one Chinese gold miners had already been detained in August and by the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining Industry Must Dig Deep to Improve Corporate Governance</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25780</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For top companies to adapt in an increasingly complex world, ownership of top companies must be taken from the government&#8217;s administrative arms Since resource prices started to rise in 2002, the mining sector has become a hot pot for international investment. It also triggered rising challenges for the corporate governance in mining companies amid deepening globalization. In the market economy system, all companies go through the same three stages of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smuggling blights rare earths industry</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25458</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The smuggling of mineral resources out of China, especially rare earths, continues to increase, a senior official from the General Administration of Customs said. The minerals are mainly smuggled to neighboring countries such as Japan and the Republic of Korea, Chen Jianxin, deputy director of the administration&#8217;s anti-smuggling bureau, recently told China Daily. Chen said the huge demand from foreign markets and China&#8217;s high customs duties for rare earths are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar investigation commission meets on copper mining project</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25392</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Investigation Commission for Letpadaungtaung Copper Mining Project held a coordination meeting in Myanmar&#8217;s new capital of Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday, stressing the need for public cooperation and rule of law to get the answer to the issue in the interests of the state, official media reported Wednesday. The reformed commission, which is tasked to probe into the Letpadaungtaung copper mine project being implemented in Monywa, northwestern Sagaing region, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar police break up protest</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25396</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar police fired water cannon and tear gas at protesters against a Chinese-backed copper mine in northwestern region of Sagaing before dawn on Thursday, the government said. President Thein Sein&#8217;s office said in a statement that water cannon, tear gas and smoke bombs were used against the protesters, but a spokesman denied allegations by local media that a form of chemical weapon had been deployed. The action had to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar activists held</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25398</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 04:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police in Myanmar have arrested six leaders of the latest protest against the planned expansion of a Chinese-run copper mine, with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi planning to visit the area to hear their grievances. In September, thousands of villagers near the Monywa mine in northwest Myanmar protested against the $1 billion expansion project. The villagers say that under the project in the Sagaing region more than 7,800 acres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar defends action against copper mine protesters</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25394</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 04:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar defended action taken against protesters at the copper mining project site in Monywa- Latpadantaung in Sagaing region before dawn on Thursday, according to a press release of the government Information Committee. The action had to be taken for the rule of law to protect the interest of the state and the public in line with democratic practice, the statement said. It said the copper mining project has been carried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copper mine project protestors disperse after deadline set in Myanmar</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=25400</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some protestors at Myanmar&#8217;s Monywa- Latpadantaung copper mine project site have dispersed themselves following a government deadline demanding the protestors to break away before midnight Tuesday, local sources said Wednesday. However, there still remains more than 100 protestors at the project site. Myanmar Home Ministry issued the ultimatum on Tuesday night demanding the protestors to break away before the deadline to make way for an independent commission to probe into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare earth industry to receive special funding after topsy-turvy years</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=24993</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was announced on Wednesday that China will earmark special funding from its central budget to support a restructuring of its rare earths industry. The money will be used to fund local government crackdowns on illegal mining, upgrades to existing facilities for higher environmental standards, research and development and high-tech applications. Rare-earth mines that have passed the country&#8217;s environmental checks will be given an allowance of 1,000 yuan ($158.73) per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crackdown to target illegal mining</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=24977</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China has vowed to crack down on illegal mining nationwide before 2015 to reduce accidents and pollution. A notice to this effect was posted on the website of the State Administration of Work Safety on Nov 7, asking local authorities to report to the State Council on the crackdown plan before Dec 31. The notice states that unlicensed mines and those with equipment and facilities that fail to meet safety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese private investors eye overseas mining</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=24692</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese private firms will be at the forefront of the country&#8217;s overseas mining investment despite current economic woes, according to officials and experts. Mining investment, especially made by private investors, will remain high in the next 10 to 20 years supported by high-level domestic mineral consumption, according to Gan Fei, a researcher from the Ministry of Land and Resources. He made his comments at an international mining forum that ran [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=24728</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xinye Mining Investment was said to be close to a deal with a British company late last year, but negotiations drag on One year has passed, but London Mining Plc. still has not tied the knot with a Sichuan miner that like many of its Chinese rivals wants to take advantage of Arctic mineral resources. Sichuan Xinye Mining Investment Co. was still negotiating with London Mining and Greenland&#8217;s state resource [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Namibia mine to open</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=24710</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the world&#8217;s biggest uranium mines will begin operating in Namibia by the end of 2015, its owner, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp (CGNPC), said Tuesday. CGNPC gained control of the Husab mine in southern Africa earlier this year after taking over Kalahari Minerals and Extract Resources in a deal worth about $2.3 billion. &#8220;We plan to start construction on the Husab mine around the end of this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s mining, metals industries pursue M&amp;A possibilities overseas</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=24698</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Number of deals surges while others sit on sidelines China&#8217;s mining and metals companies are taking advantage of global caution to seize merger and acquisition opportunities in the sector in overseas markets, experts at Ernst &#38; Young Global Ltd said on Monday. The first nine months of this year saw 684 deals worth a combined $76.8 billion in the global mining and metals sector. The number of deals dropped by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metal mining industry faces reshuffle</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=24696</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global metal mining sector will inevitably face reorganization this year because of worries among investors, said Zhou Zhongshu, president of China Minmetals Corp. Speaking during the China Mining Conference, he said there are three major problems in the metal mining industry, namely overcapacity, homogeneous competition and unreasonable profit distribution. &#8220;The industry reshuffle will be really cruel,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Many companies will be eliminated if they lack core competitiveness.&#8221; However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of China supports mining companies</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=24694</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bank of China signed a strategic cooperation agreement on Monday with the Tianjin Mining Exchange, a trading institute for mining and exploration rights, offering a $10 billion credit to support the expansion of Chinese mining companies in overseas markets. On the same day, up to 158 mining rights projects of 48 companies from six countries were listed on the online trading platform of the exchange. Among the projects listed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large uranium mine found in N. China</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=24618</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large leaching sandstone-type uranium deposit has been discovered in China&#8217;s northern regions, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Land and Resources on Sunday. The mine, ranking as the country&#8217;s largest leaching sandstone-type uranium deposit identified so far, was found in Daying areas in central Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the ministry said. The discovery, which makes the site one of the world&#8217;s top uranium mines, has great significance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mongolia to recover mine supply to China in 5-10 months: Mongolia official</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mongolia expects to recover its mine supply to the Chinese market in five to ten months as China has reduced purchasing mine in Mongolia due to the sluggish global economy, the vice minister of the country&#8217;s Ministry of Economic Development Chuluunbat Orhirbat said here on Tuesday. Addressing the Mongolia Investment Summit 2012, Chuluunbat said China has reduced its purchase of mine they buy on the Mongolian market in all kinds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gang jailed over illegal mining</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The head of a criminal gang was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for intentionally inflicting injures and illegal mining in the city of Shaoguan in the northern part of Guangdong province on Monday. Pan Guangjuan was also deprived of his political rights for life and fined 150,000 yuan ($23,885, according to the verdict passed by Shaoguan Intermediate People’s Court. Under existing laws and regulations, a suspended death sentence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;No embargo&#8217; of rare earths on Japanese firms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exports decline due to sluggish economy not islands: Expert Declining exports of rare earths are due to sluggish global demand and not tension with Tokyo, industry leaders said. No embargo has been placed on Japan over the Diaoyu Islands, Liu Yinan, vice-chairman of the China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals and Chemicals Importers and Exporters, said. The drop in exports to Japan reflects a general trend, Liu said, adding [...]]]></description>
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