ABB's North American mining chief, Rémy Lanoue, says that mines will make their investment back in electricity savings in two years.
"While North America remains depressed, and we've seen softening in Western Europe and Japan, Caterpillar continues to grow in emerging markets and in global industries like energy and mining," Chief Executive Jim Owens Jim Owens said.
A worker erupts with anger at how the mine-chief has somehow been able to afford a sports car and to lease a private plane.
With their stocks down, Mr. Mackenzie and other mining chiefs are trying to be highly attuned to investors.
Ron Wooten, the state's mine safety chief, says he has begun issuing subpoenas to reluctant witnesses to the nation's worst coal mining disaster in 40 years.
The Seleka attacked a friend of mine, another chief, and cut his throat while he was working on coffee.
Revamped safety laws and beefed up enforcement were among factors that led to the decline in mining deaths, said the federal mine safety chief, Richard Stickler.
West Virginia's new mine safety chief is preparing to test members of his agency's staff for illegal drug use.
The Obama administration's mine safety chief, Joe Main, said that the numbers were encouraging, but that he would not be satisfied until no miners were killed on the job.
That conclusion directly contradicts the May finding by a commission, led by a former federal mine safety chief, J. Davitt McAteer, that placed the blame for the explosion on Massey's negligence and culture of putting production over safety.
