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Budget 'must reveal' mining tax details
Posted on May 6, 2012
CLIME Asset Management founder John Abernethy has called on companies hit by the government's controversial mining tax to immediately disclose the financial impact on their business or face reprimands from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission.
Miner in a hole as project binned
Posted on April 1, 2012
A small-time Queensland resources company whose plans to mine the fertile farming soils of the state's Darling Downs region were rejected by the incoming state government is at risk of financial collapse.
Tin miners have success in the can
Posted on March 18, 2012
STAND by for a re-ranking of Australia's tin hopefuls. Peruvian mining giant Minsur recently put together a list of the world's top tin resources, China being No 1 with 60 per cent of the known tin.
Miners in ore at the prospects of unearthing uranium
Posted on February 19, 2012
For more than four decades, geologist Wolfgang Leyh has studied the broad landscape around Broken Hill in western NSW, searching for its buried riches. Too many of his colleagues, he thinks, spend their days behind computers.
'To buy gold or not to buy gold That is the question'
Posted on February 12, 2012
Former investment bank Mark Carnegie says gold would be a good hedge Source: The Australian TO buy gold or not to buy gold? That is the question. That may depend on how optimistic you are about the world economy emerging unscathed from its current…
Chinese on a bullion binge
Posted on February 5, 2012
Over the past month they've been impossible to miss. On billboards across Hong Kong, throughout its subway network and all over its buses have been huge advertisements for little gold dragons.
Newmont Mining finds two suitors for coal tenements
Posted on February 2, 2012
Gold miner Newmont Mining is putting a final polish to the sale of its Queensland coal assets, with two overseas suitors vying for a resource estimated at more than 1.2 billion tonnes of thermal coal.
South African coal glow grows
Posted on January 22, 2012
THE glow around South African coal is growing brighter for one Aussie miner. ASX-listed Universal Coal has begun talks with Chinese and Indian groups following approaches to invest in its Berenice-Cygnus coking coal project close to South Africas borde…
Boom to supply BHP's Olympic Dam
Posted on January 17, 2012
BOOM Logistics has been nominated as supplier of cranes and related services to BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam project.
New row looming over MRRT
Posted on January 8, 2012
Australia's peak mining industry body has set the scene for a renewed debate on the mining tax, arguing the sector has not agreed to a minimum amount of revenue to be raised from the controversial scheme.
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Developments in Gossan’s Magnesium Project Paper Presented at the 69th World Magnesium Conference
Gossan Resources Limited's Technical Advisor, Dr. Zuliani, will be delivering a paper entitled, "Developments in the Zuliani Process for Gossan Resources’ Magnesium Project" at the 69th Annual World Magnesium Conference on May 22th in San Francisco. The conference, sponsored by the International Magnesium Association (IMA), focuses on current developments throughout all aspects of the magnesium industry. View Press Release -
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