Myanmar panel wants China-backed mine project
A Myanmar commission, led by opposition leader and parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi, has proposed that a copper mining project in which a Chinese company has a stake should go on. Myanmar ...
View ArticlePro-mining opposition wins Greenland election
An opposition centrist party that favors tapping Greenland's underground mineral wealth appears poised to win the Arctic country's parliamentary ...
View ArticleChinas Lunar Exploration Program
China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1 ...
View ArticleMining proponents win Greenland election
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Greenland is poised to get its first female prime minister after a centrist party that supports tapping the Arctic island's vast mineral wealth, including uranium, ...
View ArticleInsight The increasing use of Gravity Gradiometry in the Exploration Workflow
Gravity gradiometry is the study and measurement of spatial variations in the acceleration due to gravity. The gravity gradient is the spatial rate of change of gravitational acceleration. Gravity ...
View ArticleCanadian Arctic irreversible melt not just bad news
study published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal shows. Using computer models to predict how the glaciers would respond to future climate change, researchers found it is highly likely the ...
View ArticlePatagonia Gold Reports Continued Excellent Progress For Lomada de Leiva and...
March 13, 2013 /CNW/ - Patagonia Gold Plc (TSX: PAT), (AIM: PGD) ("Patagonia Gold" or "the Company") today provided a progress update for its Lomada de Leiva ("Lomada") ...
View ArticleCalico Achieves Significant Permitting Milestone at Grassy Mountain
March 13, 2013 /CNW/ - Calico Resources Corp. (TSXV: CKB), (OTCQX: CVXHF) (the "Company" or "Calico") is pleased to announce they have completed their second major advance in ...
View ArticleAlacer Gold announces 2012 year-end financial results
March 13, 2013 /CNW/ - Alacer Gold Corp. ("Alacer" or the "Corporation") (TSX: ASR) and (ASX: AQG) announced that it has filed its financial results and related management's ...
View ArticleOpposition critical of mining wins Greenland election
NUUK (Reuters) - Greenland's main opposition leader, who campaigned on a platform of greater control and higher taxes of foreign miners, gained the biggest number of votes in a national ...
View ArticleConservative opposition to mining tax proposal not unanimous
After last week, the most unpopular people in the Nevada Legislature might be six Senate Republicans who proposed a tax on mining. Members of their own party are even mocking the idea: Assembly ...
View ArticleCore Exploration restarts drilling program at SA uranium discovery
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Core Exploration (ASX:CXO) has restarted drilling at its Fitton project in northern South AustraliaThe new 2,500 metres reverse ciruclation drilling program ...
View ArticleWhite Cliff Minerals to start Western Australia nickel drilling
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) White Cliff Minerals (ASX: WCN) expects to start drilling at its Lake Johnston nickel project in Western Australia in early April 2013, after finalising the ...
View ArticleAvalon Minerals continues high grade copper and iron intercepts at Viscaria...
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Avalon Minerals (ASX:AVI) has intersected high grade iron and copper mineralisation at all six drill holes in the D Zone at the Viscaria project in ...
View ArticleMining-critical party wins Greenland election
Aleqa Hammond's party won 42% of votes in elections held on Tuesday, on a platform of greater control and heavier taxation of foreign ...
View ArticleBlackthorn secures $80m funding for Burkina Faso zinc mine
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed Blackthorn Resources has secured an additional $80-million in equity funding from joint venture (JV) partner Glencore to complete the construction and ...
View ArticleEndeavour eyes 550 000 ozy by 2016
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Dual-listed gold miner Endeavour Mining has submitted its preliminary economic assessment for its Hounde gold project, in Burkina Faso, which indicated that the ...
View ArticleRex cuts costs and ups production at Hillside
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Following a review of its Hillside copper project, in South Australia, ASX-listed Rex Minerals has reduced the capital cost of the proposed project, while increasing ...
View ArticleMungana Goldmines terminates Kagara deal
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed Mungana Goldmines on Wednesday told shareholders that it had terminated a heads of agreement (HoA) with the administrators of fellow-listed Kagara, after ...
View ArticleSovereign Gold buys unlisted explorer
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed Sovereign Gold has moved to increase its footprint in New South Wales through the acquisition of unlisted explorer Gossan Hill Gold. Gossan Hill holds ...
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