A lot of big money going around at the moment in this industry

 Ratchet up another notch an the cost scale

 Needs must and business to business partnerships make unusual bedfellows --

 The easy bits are done - it starts getting a lot harder,  the deeper you go  - the yellow metal still has value

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's gold companies, already mining at the world's deepest depths, are looking to plumb even deeper veins in a new gold rush spurred by record prices.
 

 Where there's a will, there's way - and if there's a dollar to be made,  it makes it all the more of a reason to do it -  we've done the easy paces - now it's the hard yards

 Who said what goes up - must come down ?  I'm tempted to rush out and fill my tank -

 Oil prices have reached another record - surging past $84 a barrel for the first time.

It's early days yet - but how does it go - the journey of 1000 miles starts with the first step

PetroChina has discovered another major gasfield in western Xinjiang, a source from the company's Tarim unit confirmed Wednesday.

Always strong in this industry - the innovation factory has kicked in again --

 South Africa is endowed with 32-billion tons of coal reserves, which are rated as economically extractable, and a further 160-billion tons of coal resources, which are judged uneconomic. Until fairly recently, there was little prospect of exploiting this enormous pent-up energy potential.

 It's a moving target - and it keeps everyone guessing - plenty of engineering activity in mining !!

 just dig it out and sell it - whatever it is

 Crisis,  what crisis - nothing which can't be sorted out over a few glasses of vodka (better make that bottles of vodka)

 Lets hope that it does not end up in a "real" battle over the issue - a bit early to start getting the battle ships ready for action - tho the Argies did well in the Rugby World Cup

 Mining giant BHP Billiton says it has bought a 40 per cent interest in 14 offshore oil & gas licences near the Falkland Islands from British minnow Falkland Oil and Gas.

 I don't know what they do - but with a name like that - who cares - just go, go, go

 hurry up and develope the alternatives - wait a minite,  they are already there - as the price of oil goes up - the alternatives start too look very attractive

 GLOBAL oil prices surged to fresh highs overnight as traders watched a new storm in the Gulf of Mexico, with Brent crude in London topping $US80 a barrel for the first time.

 the numbers just keep getting bigger - put some in my back pocket

 this is not one for the clean energy lobby

 move em around and get the assetts right  - buy a few - sell a few

 so size does matter

THERE is no doubt Olympic Dam contains immense amounts of gold - and copper, uranium and silver - but despite updated figures released yesterday the South Australian mine still falls short of being crowned the world's largest gold deposit.