Miners pay heavy price for India&#39;s famed marble
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A Mughal emperor famously used  it to entomb his beloved wife, bathrooms around the world are  lined with it and business executives brush up against it in  hotel lobbies: Makrana&#39;s much-admired marble is everywhere.
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SYDNEY Xstrata, the world&#39;s biggest exporter of power-station coal, offered 7.4 billion Australian dollars, or $5.5 billion, for WMC Resources on Thursday to add nickel and copper mines to its portfolio.
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Like the big oil companies, the world&#39;s mining majors are experiencing an embarrassment of riches due to very high commodity prices. BHP Billiton is in the happiest position: it is both the world&#39;s biggest miner and has a substantial oil production ...
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Harmony Gold Mining Co., the biggest miner of South African gold, made a hostile offer to buy Gold Fields Ltd. for 52.9 billion rand ($8.
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THE war between two of South Africaâs largest gold companies is set to intensify this week as the battle moves from the stock market to the courts.
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SINGAPOREâChina&#39;s plan to buy Canadian mining giant Noranda Inc. is just the beginning of an overseas acquisition march fuelled by swollen foreign exchange reserves and a need to secure natural resources.
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India skipper Mahendra Dhoni attracts the highest early price as bidding gets under way for players in the Indian Premier League.
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The price of platinum soared on Thursday past 2,000 dollars an ounce to a record as power shortages affected mining production in South Africa, the biggest supplier of the white precious metal, traders said.
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Gold miners on  Russia&#39;s Kamchatka peninsula contend with volcanic eruptions,  floods and poor infrastructure, but high metal prices mean the  hard work pays off.
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Lakshmi Mittal, the Indian-born steel magnate, yesterday staked a claim to overtake Roman Abramovich as Britain&#39;s richest man with a Â£10bn deal to create the world&#39;s largest steelmaker.
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Harmony Gold Mining, the largest miner of South African gold, made a hostile bid yesterday to acquire Gold Fields Ltd., another South African miner, for 52.
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PERTH (Dow Jones)--Financially distressed Australian mining company Sons of Gwalia Ltd. (SGW.AU) said Monday that it has been approached by several parties interested in buying its gold business.
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WMC is the subject of a new offer from the Swiss-based mining giant, Xstrata. After last month&#39;s bid through a scheme of arrangement was knocked back, Xstrata has launched an off-market takeover bid for all shares in WMC.
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TORONTO -- One of Canada&#39;s largest and best-known miners, Noranda Inc., is in exclusive talks to be acquired by a Chinese metals producer, the two companies confirmed Friday.
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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest mining company, agreed to sell an extra $3.2 billion of iron ore to four Chinese steelmakers, helping underpin expansion of its mines in Western Australia.
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Oil firm Cairn Energy has said that the initial public offering of its Indian unit would be priced at 160 rupees per share (1.83 sterling) -- at the low end of its price range.
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Copper producer Antofagasta makes a $400m offer for Australian business Equatorial Mining, sparking a bid battle.