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Think small and dig deeper. The combination sounds odd, but when you combine it with high-grade ore, a picture emerges which explains why, in a falling price environment, the management at the Australian nickel miner Mincor
Full story...Mining and politics don’t usually mix well, but sometimes there is really no alternative. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has made no secret of his dislike of the US and, as a kind of socialist, you can see why he might be
Full story...Lightning might not strike twice in the same spot, but cyclones do. The twin cyclonic events in the life of the Frances Creek iron ore mine in Australia’s Northern Territory were named Tracy and Michael. Tracy struck on Christmas
Full story...Alf Hills came in to visit Minesite a couple of weeks ago. With a 26 year stint at Placer under his belt, Alf’s a seasoned mining man, and knows a thing or two about operating in some fairly unusual spots. He needs to, since his
Full story...John Donald’s back. This might not mean much to anyone who’s been in the resources boom for less than a couple of years, but it means plenty to Minews who once bet John a sizeable sum of money on the outcome of a certain rugby
Full story...Remember Mineral Securities? Yes, that’s the company that took what seemed like an age to merge with Robert Champion de Crespigny’s Scarborough Minerals and since then has been engaged in getting back together with CopperCo which
Full story...As a power-sharing pact between Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) emerges, the MDC has revealed that it will seek a reversal of the draconian mining and expropriation
Full story...When people talk about the length of time it takes to find, develop and exploit a mine it is usually assumed that is because of technical issues. The fact that is not the case is demonstrated by the story of the Idaho Cobalt
Full story...Glancing back over the expert opinions of a random selection of UK investment gurus down the years, you’d be forgiven for having made the assumption that China was and is having an arbitrary lease of economic good fortune before
Full story...At first sight a company called Balkans Gold announcing the acquisition of a company with assets in Burkina Faso and Niger looks like a U-turn as complete as those being made by the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. A word with
Full story...Professor Conroy showed up on BBC Television news a couple of weeks ago, as reporters from that august public institution roved across his Clontibret gold property taking vox populi about the “massive” gold find that the
Full story...“It’s all moving along nicely”, says Bernard Olivier of Bezant Resources. He’s in town to draw the market’s attention to the latest update from the company’s Mankayan project in the Philippines. Following a review of historic
Full story...Wild swings in capital markets over the last week, particularly in equities, are a clear demonstration that the visibility about the economic outlook is as cloudy as it has ever been. Attention has mostly been focussed on shares,
Full story...Frankly, when you’re at the exploration stage it doesn’t matter much what the price of the target metal is, as it will probably take you well over five years to get into production - the price only gets really important at the
Full story...Sometimes it is the simplest things that make the biggest difference. Gippsland has been working on its Abu Dabbab tantalum and tin project for some time now and progress has been steady if not spectacular. Chairman and managing
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Forum Acquires 100% Interest In Highrock Lake Claim, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan
San Agustin Step Out Drilling Intersects Significant Mineralization to a Depth of 417 metres
Firestone Ventures Intersects 4.00 Metres of 16.15% Zinc and Expands Area of High-Grade Zinc Mineralization at Torlon Hill
Commences Production at Stellite Chrome Mine Following Completion of Acquisition
International Barytex Resources Ltd. Retains CoMo Investment Solutions Inc.
CPN In-fill & Delineation Drilling on the Rovina Porphyry, Romania
Definitive Feasibility Study Demonstrates Certej Project Viability
