Best Of 2012

Asteroids mining and miners told to work over Christmas among our most-read stories of 2012 Cecilia Jamasmie 2012 will go down as the year when the wind fell out of the sails of economic recovery and serious storms rocked the boat of major miners, throwing a few CEOs overboard in the process.Cynthia Carroll (Anglo American), Aaron Regent (Barrick Gold), Robert Friedland (Ivanhoe), Marcelo Awad (Antofagasta Minerals) and Diego Hernandez (Codelco) were only some of the executives who left their companies, either because they chose to or because of shareholders pressure. Google’s billionaire co-founders and filmmaker James Cameron launched their asteroid mining company, Planetary resources, space exploration became the most popular topic of the year, as our list of MINING.com’s top stories of 2012 shows: 1.-INFOGRAPHIC: Why asteroid mining is necessary 2.-Aussie miners told ‘death’ only excuse for not working on Christmas http://www.mining.com/aussie-miners-told-death-only-excuse-for-not-working-on-christmas-61276/ 3.-Billionaire Frank Giustra: Gold will be the final bubble http://www.mining.com/gold-is-the-ultimate-bubble-58076/ 4.-Heard the rumour China is buying 6,000 tonnes of gold? It may not be as crazy as it sounds 6.-Forget gold, IRON ORE is the story of the decade 7.-These 2 charts tell you everything you need to know about iron ore for the next 20 years 8.-The mining billionaires of 2012 http://www.mining.com/tag/2012-mining-billionaires/ 10.-Silver would disappear in a nanosecond if people understood how little there is Eric Sprott http://www.mining.com/silver-would-disappear-in-a-nanosecond-if-people-understood-how-little-there-is-eric-sprott/