UPDATE 1-Argentina orders Vale to keep workers on at halted potash mine
Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:04pm EDT BUENOS AIRES, March 15 (Reuters) - Argentina ordered Brazil's Vale SA on Friday to keep on at least 6,500 workers at the $6 billion Rio Colorado fertilizer project, which...
View ArticleCoking coal price under pressure
Platts News reports on a new research note from Daniel Scott of Cowen Securities released on Thursday that contains bad news for met coal producers. Platts notes buyers' sentiment weakening in recent...
View Article160-year study of real commodity prices sees beginning of the end of the...
which looks at real commodity prices on a very long time horizon. The paper considers the evidence on real commodity prices over 160 years for 30 commodities representing $7.89 trillion worth of...
View ArticleSAS announces filing of NI 43-101 technical reports and 2012 Annual...
March 15, 2013 /CNW/ - St Andrew Goldfields Ltd. (T-SAS), ("SAS" or the "Company") reports that it has today filed on SEDAR NI 43-101 compliant technical reports with respect to the Holt-Holloway...
View ArticleTime To Opt Out of Creepy Fed Ed Data-Mining Racket
Last week, I reported on the federal government’s massive new student-tracking database, which was created as part of the nationalized Common Core standards scheme. The bad news: GOP ';leadership';...
View ArticleCodelco workers threaten 24hr strike within month
SANTIAGO – Codelco's unionised workers threatened on Friday to stage a 24-hour work stoppage at all units of the world's top copper miner within 30 days to demand greater job security and pensions....
View ArticleGreenland government falls as voters send warning to mining companies
China and foreign multinationals and called an end this week to the government of prime minister Kuupik Kleist.London Mining, which has a former British foreign minister, Sir Nicholas Bonsor, on the...
View ArticleAmericas Bullion Royalty Announces $2000000 Private Placement
March 15, 2013 /CNW/ - Americas Bullion Royalty Corp. (TSX: AMB) (the "Company") is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of up to 8,500,000 common shares at a price ...
View ArticleCFI Announces Grant of Options
Canada Fluorspar Inc. (TSXV:CFI) ("CFI" or the "Company") announces that it granted an aggregate total of 900,000 stock options ("Options") to seven directors and officers of the Company. The Options...
View ArticleQuebec signals flexibility on controversial mining plan
MONTREAL – The Quebec government on Friday hinted at flexibility on its plan to raise royalties mining companies pay on minerals extracted in the province, and said Quebec would remain competitive even...
View ArticleUPDATE 2-Petrobras ups exploration production budget ahead of auctions
Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:12pm EDT * Overall 2013-2017 plan little changed from year ago * Exploration and production spending to jump 4 pct * Refining spending cut 1.1 pct, biofuels cut 24 percent By Jeb...
View ArticleAntaike lifts Chinas 2013 aluminum output forecast by 1 mil mt to 25 ...
China's domestic aluminum production is now expected to reach 25 million mt in 2013, up from a forecast of 24 million mt at the start of the year, an analyst at state nonferrous metals information...
View ArticleZambias copper production slides down in 2012
Zambia, Africa's largest copper producer, saw copper production declining during 2012 compared to the previous year despite an increase in investment in the mining sector, the Zambia Daily Mail...
View ArticleChinese miners ready to bulk up
A record wave of consolidation in China's mining industry is creating bigger companies that will have the muscle to compete with the likes of BHP Billiton for overseas acquisitions. Even after Chinese...
View Article2013 International Shale Gas Con...
of 2013, the Ministry of Land and Resources announced the second round bid winners of Chinese shale gas exploration right. The third bidding is under planning and will come out this year. In order to...
View ArticleMainland gold imports from HK plunge
GOLD imports by the Chinese mainland from Hong Kong fell for the first time in four months in January after a surge in purchases in the previous months to meet the Lunar New Year demand and as...
View ArticleChinas Feb coke exports surge 53 on year triples on month
China exported 120,000 mt of metallurgical and semi-finished coke in February 2013, up 53% from 78,397 mt in the same month last year and triple the 40,000 mt in January, preliminary data released...
View ArticleAditya Birla Minerals to shut Australia copper mine
Aditya Birla Minerals, part of Aditya Birla Group, is shutting the smaller of its two Australian copper mines as it is struggling to make money at current copper prices. Aditya Birla Minerals said on...
View ArticleMetals industry left out of stock rally as product prices stay low
o A winner in the past year is Steel Dynamics Inc. of Fort Wayne, Ind., which produces hot-dipped galvanized and low-carbon steel at MetalTech in South Oakland, GalvTech in Pittsburgh's Hays...
View ArticleAs Deep Sea Mining Increases So Do Risks
Companies around the world are aiming to cash in on deep-sea mining expeditions. Is this the future, or are the consequences of mining the unknown too ...
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