MINING.COM Staff Writer

Mining Journal (May 12, 2008) - Rio Tinto has begun efforts to reactivate the Panguna copper mine in Papua New Guinea, almost 20 years after a secessionist rebellion forced its closure, spurred on by strong price gains for the red metal.

Mining Journal (May 16, 2008) - Mineral-laden Venezuela on Thursday shut the door to new gold projects and threatened other mining and logging concessions in a step by leftist President Hugo Chavez to tighten control of natural resources.

IndustryWeek (April 22, 2008) - Chilean state-run mining group Codelco, the biggest copper producer in the world, was struggling on April 22 with a strike that has halved its output and is costing it $10 million a day.