Australian miners resort to backdoor listings as IPO market languishes
Australia's mining and oil companies have increasingly resorted to disingenuous "backdoor listings", as the country's IPO market continues to languish. ...
View ArticleTiger Resources Limited - Updated Presentation
Jan. 31, 2013 /CNW/ - Tiger Resources Limited (ASX/TSX:TGS, "Tiger") advises that it has released an updated presentation in ASX. The full copy of the presentation is available in a ...
View ArticleSouth Africa in need of Canadian-type junior boosting – Samda
CAPE TOWN (miningweekly.com) – The introduction of a flow-through share scheme of the kind adopted in Canada should be reconsidered in South Africa to boost junior mining, South African Mining ...
View Article‘Strategic’ will not lose coals export market – Shabangu
CAPE TOWN (miningweekly.com) – The declaration of coal as a strategic resource will continue to allow private participation and exports, says Mineral Resources ...
View ArticleTop 10 Silver Mining Companies
Dubai Chronicle’s team conducted a research to determine the top silver mining companies. The provided data gives accurate information about the 2011 output of the largest silver ...
View ArticleSA ferrochrome output cuts expected to boost prices
JOHANNESBURG/LONDON – Ferrochrome production cuts in South Africa are likely to persist into the second quarter, boosting prices at a time of weak demand, traders said. South Africa is the ...
View ArticleResources Watch Resources Watch
Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry. This week: Discounted prices for iron-ore ...
View ArticleInvestment in Aus megaprojects to peak this year – Deloitte
PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Investment into Australia’s major resources projects was expected to peak late this year, and would likely decline thereafter, advisory firm Deloitte Access Economics ...
View ArticleNorton warns of A$28m half-year loss
PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Gold miner Norton Gold Fields on Thursday warned shareholders it would report a net loss after tax of A$28-million for the six months to December. The miner said the ...
View ArticleBuswell signs off on Esperence iron exports
PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Western Australia’s Transport Minister Troy Buswell has given the nod for the next stage of a new iron-export facility at the port of Esperance. The state ...
View ArticleShaw Manganese divests WA assets
PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Junior Shaw River Manganese has entered into a tenement sale agreement to sell off its non-core gold and base metals assets in Western Australia. Shaw has signed an ...
View ArticleBFS indicates 2014 start date for Burkina Faso project
PERTH (miningweekly.com) - The bankable feasibility study (BFS) on ASX-listed Gryphon Minerals’ Banfora gold project, in Burkina Faso, has revealed that gold production could start as early as ...
View ArticleMetals Stocks Gold futures slip back after recent gains
SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures declined in Asian electronic trading hours Thursday, as profit-taking set in after a strong performance for the precious metal in the wake of a Federal Reserve ...
View ArticleHanlongs $1.4bn takeover of Sundance faces fresh delay
shareholders in suspense again over whether it will be able to fund its $1.4 billion takeover of the Australian company, with signs that it will not meet a key deadline on ...
View ArticleIvernia eyes mine reopening by Q2
PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Canada’s Ivernia reported this week that it had secured a $20-million loan facility from Sprott Resources Lending Partnership to restart operations at the Paroo ...
View ArticleWhitehaven warns of low earnings
PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Coal miner Whitehaven has told shareholders that earnings for the first six months of the financial year would be less than $10-million, with the company blaming weak coal ...
View ArticleIndian to commence new uranium project by 2017
KOLKATA (miningweekly.com) - The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) would shortly commence a uranium mining and processing plant at the Kanampalle reserves, in the southern Indian province ...
View ArticleAfrica needs $50bn rail investment over next ten years
Africa would need to spend more than $50-billion in the next decade on building 4 000 km of additional rail infrastructure to unlock the continent’s bulk mineral resource potential, Standard ...
View ArticleAmplats requests CCMA facilitation
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) has been asked to facilitate discussions between Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) and unions about planned retrenchments, it said on ...
View ArticleLonmin Dec output ahead of ramp-up target
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Platinum miner Lonmin on Thursday reported that its production for the quarter ended December 31, 2012, had "substantially exceeded" its planned ...
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