Green Column Deep-Sea Drilling Muddies Political Waters
AUSTIN, TEXAS - The oceans deep are a repository of many secrets. Shipwrecks have existed undisturbed for centuries, as have corals and fish of almost unimaginable diversity. Now, ...
View ArticleMetals Stocks Gold weaker as equity rally kills haven appeal
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures slipped Wednesday, undercut as global equities and investor appetite for risk remained on the rise, undercutting the yellow metal's safe-haven ...
View ArticleSouth African mining needs new clustering model – Ramphele
CAPE TOWN (miningweekly.com) – The South African mining industry needed a fresh, new model that simultaneously boosted agriculture and industry and put an end to the currency-strengthening ...
View ArticleRex Minerals defines 120Mt at 0.77 copper equivalent Ore Reserve for Hillside
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Rex Minerals (ASX: RXM) has defined a maiden open pit Ore Reserve of 120 million tonnes at 0.77% copper equivalent for its Hillside copper project on the ...
View ArticleUnity Mining Cortona Resources merger lifts gold Reserves by 300
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Unity Mining (ASX: UML) has boosted its total gold Reserves by 300% to 366,000 ounces and more than doubled Resources to 730,000 ounces following completion ...
View ArticleSovereign Gold Company hits corporate funding target gold exploration fully...
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Sovereign Gold Company (ASX: SOC) has reached its corporate funding target following the previously executed cooperation agreements with China's Jiangsu ...
View ArticleIvanplats to mine platinum manufacture platinum products in Bushveld
CAPE TOWN (miningweekly.com) – Beneficiation would be the key driver of Ivanplats proposed new platinum mine in South Africa where platinum-product manufacturing would take place together with ...
View ArticleSyrah Resources wraps up Balama East resource drilling with more high grade...
(MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Syrah Resources (ASX: SYR) continues to consistently produce very wide zones of high grade graphite and vanadium mineralisation at surface within its Balama ...
View ArticleExercise of Grassy Mountain Option
Feb. 6, 2013 /CNW/ - Calico Resources Corp. (TSX-V: CKB) (the "Company" or "Calico") is very pleased to announce that today it entered into a formal agreement to amend its ...
View ArticleNorthern Iron pumps more than 4 billion litres of water from the Griffith Pit
An estimated 4,025,000,000 litres or 1,065,000,000 gallons removed. Water levels are down by approximately 5 metres or 16 feet 5 ...
View ArticleCorvus Gold Increases Leach Gold Recovery for Savage Valley Zone of North...
Figure 1: North Bullfrog Project areas showing the location of the different resource areas and the PQ core holes used for metallurgical sampling. (CNW Group/Corvus Gold ...
View ArticleMining Indaba Anglo’s Carroll says US$11bn investment depends on Amplats...
Anglo American Platinum Ltd being able to carry out its restructuring."We have to restructure the business to make it viable for the future and in doing so, to protect over 45,000 jobs," ...
View ArticleMining Indaba Ivanplats may seek South Africa listing
London as the preferred option, Robert Friedland told delegates at Mining Indaba in Cape Town. "We are coming here as foreign investors and now we are thinking of listing in Johannesburg. Our ...
View ArticleMittal cuts capacity as power surges takes buy-back knock
JSE-listed steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (Mittal) has again warned that further sharp increases in South Africa’s electricity prices could be "catastrophic" for both its ...
View ArticleSilver Wheaton agrees US$1.9bn gold streaming deal with Vale
copper mine and 70% of gold from seven of its operations in Sudbury to Silver Wheaton for a 20-year term, according to Silver Wheaton. In return Vale will receive US$1.9 billion in cash, plus 10 ...
View ArticleMetso to acquire JX
China . Metso said that the acquisition of JX will improve its capabilities to supply wear parts to its mining and construction industry customers in China and other markets in the Asia ...
View ArticleN Cape iron-ore drilling campaign at advanced stage - Mittal
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (Mittal) is moving ahead with iron-ore exploration on three Northern Cape farms in the coming few months and expects ...
View ArticleMwana signs JV agreement with Zhejiang
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - Diversified resources company Mwana Africa has signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with China’s Zhejiang Hailiang Company, covering 28 licences held by Mwana ...
View ArticleB.C. mayor calls for end to labour dispute with HD Mining
Penggui Yan, the chair of HD Mining International Ltd., is photographed during an interview at the HD Mining offices in Vancouver, British Columbia, Monday, February 4, 2013. (Rafal Gerszak for the ...
View ArticleSand-mining threatens homes and livelihoods
IRIN , explaining that until sand-mining began the rate of coastal erosion was around one metre per year. "Now it is up to six metres [in certain places]." "When they take sand from ...
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