Avocet reports stable production guidance as reserves decrease
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – London-listed gold mining and exploration company Avocet Mining on Thursday said gold production and cash costs for 2013 were expected to remain in line with ...
View ArticleEagle Mountain moves ahead with EIA PEA for Guyana project
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Guyana-focused project developer Eagle Mountain Gold is moving forward with an environmental impact assessment (EIA), following the company’s exercise of an ...
View ArticleJudge clears way for drilling in Illinois Shawnee forest
COOL VALLEY oAll the bumps and bruises McCluer North absorbed along the way during Suburban North Conference play was the perfect ...
View ArticleGov. Hickenlooper opposes Thompson Divide drilling
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo.-Gov. John Hickenlooper is siding with local opposition over proposed oil and gas drilling around the Thompson Divide near Carbondale, saying it's a beautiful landscape ...
View ArticleRoyal Nickel Closes Brokered Flow-Through Private Placement and Provides...
"By raising a targeted amount of capital through this flow-through financing we will be able to investigate the regional potential near Dumont and, most importantly, follow-up on a single high ...
View ArticleAcadian Announces Closing of $900000 Private Placement
. The Company intends to use the proceeds of the Private Placement to further develop its core assets and for general working capital. Insiders participated in the Private Placement, purchasing ...
View ArticleUranium One Shareholders and Optionholders Approve Going Private Transaction...
March 7, 2013 /CNW/ - Uranium One Inc. announced today that it has received securityholder approval for the proposed plan of arrangement pursuant to which JSC Atomredmetzoloto ("ARMZ") ...
View ArticleUranium One shareholders approve ARMZ deal
March 7 | Thu Mar 7, 2013 1:22pm EST March 7 (Reuters) - Uranium One Inc shareholders voted in favor of Russia's state-owned ARMZ's offer to take the company private by buying the ...
View ArticleTransnet studies new coal terminal as part of R30bn Richards Bay investment plan
State-owned freight logistics group Transnet is working on two major expansion projects at the Port of Richards Bay, in KwaZulu-Natal, which could together result in investments of more than ...
View ArticleLawyer Says Transocean Failed to Train Drilling Rig Crews Properly
Transocean Ltd. failed to train its drilling rig crews properly and didn't maintain key safety equipment on the doomed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, leading to the deadly 2010 explosion and ...
View ArticleAG W.Va.s mining interests will be protected
Morrisey spoke Thursday at the 40th annual West Virginia Mining Symposium at the Charleston Civic Center. The event is conducted by the West Virginia Coal ...
View ArticleGeologies tight financing markets set apart global rare-earths projects
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – There is a growing realisation within the rare-earths extraction sector that those development projects that do not have well understood geologies would find it ...
View ArticleMining to be Ethiopian economic backbone as Allana outlines progress
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Sub-Saharan Africa was at the fore of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s 2013 show, with projects from West, Central and Southern Africa ...
View ArticleTunisia gives Ukraine firm oil exploration
TUNISIA'S industry ministry says Ukrainian firm YNG Exploration Limited has been award an oil exploration permit for the Tatouine region in the south of the country. The permit, covering the ...
View ArticleUPDATE 1-Paulsons gold fund tumbles more other portfolios mixed in February
BOSTON, March 7 (Reuters) - Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson lost more money in February when his gold fund suffered double-digit losses as the metal and gold mining stocks extended ...
View ArticleFriedland on headless miners dodos and ethical platinum
Euan Rocha and Rod Nickel of Reuters sat down with the normally media-shy Robert Friedland and the legendary mining financier more than lived up to his reputation as a salesman and astute commentator ...
View ArticleJohn Paulson’s gold fund dove 18 in February
Beaten up bullion investor, John Paulson, logged an 18% drop in his Gold Fund last month triggered by the ongoing slump in gold prices, and is now down 26% ...
View ArticleGreek police used excessive violence and tear gas against anti-mining...
last month's attack to a subsidiary of Canadian Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD) (NYSE:EGO). On Thursday, locals set up a roadblock at a village in the north of the country, close to Hellas Gold ...
View ArticleThe UK goes after a piece of the Afghan $1 trillion mining pie
$1 trillion of untapped mineral wealth , by providing a three-year, $15 million (10m) plan to back mining and oil and gas projects in the country. Estimations from World Bank ...
View ArticleIron ore price BHP counters Beijing claims of market manipulation
Benchmark 62% iron ore fines at China's Tianjin turned positive on Thursday to $146.30 reversing its downward trend since hitting 16-month highs of $158.90 in February. The price of the ...
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