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• Another platinum merger - Jubilee bids for Braemore »
  July 3, 2009
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  July 3, 2009
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  July 3, 2009
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  July 3, 2009
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  July 3, 2009
• Near term copper price pullback will be reversed - Morgan Stanley »
  July 3, 2009
• New Zimbabwe mining law will lead to re-evaluation of all mining contracts »
  July 3, 2009
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  July 3, 2009
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• BHP's Argus shows rival the right path »
  July 3, 2009
• BHP unloads nickel »
  July 3, 2009
• Belgium-based metals major moving into mining »
  July 3, 2009
• REG-Harmony Gold Mining: Statement re Fatality at Harmony?s Phakisa mine »
  July 3, 2009
• BHP offloads Yabulu nickel refinery »
  July 3, 2009
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  July 3, 2009
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  July 3, 2009
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• First Asian Geostatistics Congress »
  India | August 10, 2009 - August 11, 2009
• COM 2009 - Conference of Metallurgists - Nickel Cobalt »
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• Las Vegas Hard Assets Investment Conference »
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• 2009 Toronto Resource Investment Conference »
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  Canada | October 6, 2009 - October 9, 2009
• China Mining Congress & Expo 2009 »
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  South Africa | November 2, 2009 - November 4, 2009
• 18th International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 2009 (MPES 2009) »
  Canada | November 16, 2009 - November 19, 2009
• Eleventh International Symposium on Environmental Issues and Waste Management in Energy and Mineral Production (SWEMP 2009) »
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• 13th U.S./North American Mine Ventilation Symposium »
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