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Planetary Resources doesn’t want more people onboard its asteroids-mining ship
Less than a month after officially launching its asteroid-mining plans, Google’s billionaire co-founders and filmmaker James Cameron’s owned company Planetary Resources, has already decided not to accept any more job applications.
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Falling off the supercycle: BHP puts the brakes on capex, stock hits 3-year low
Frik Els | May 16, 2012
“Where the industry previously lacked investment opportunities and choice, it now has more projects than cash flows. All of us in the industry are having to make choices.”
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Monday metal meltdown: Gold drops to 10-month low
Frik Els | May 14, 2012
"What is more disconcerting is that while investors have over the past few weeks appeared cautious of running too short on gold, this fear looks to have evaporated."
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Anglo American Platinum to adopt fuel cell locomotive
Cecilia Jamasmie | May 9, 2012
Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world’s largest platinum producer, launched today the first of five fuel cell-powered locomotive prototypes to be tested at its mining operations in South Africa.
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South Africa mine casualty figures at record low
MINING.com News | May 6, 2012
Miningmx.com reports April has seen the lowest number of mining fatalities ever in South Africa, according to figures released by mines minister Susan Shabangu.
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Platinum to rack up eighth year of surplus
GFMS Limited -www.gfms.co.uk | May 3, 2012
Meanwhile, palladium remained in a gross deficit last year, with this being likely to increase in 2012.
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US metal and industrial metal mine salaries for 2011
Jack Caldwell | May 2, 2012
There is no such thing as an average miner. There is no such thing as an average salary. Yet we can get some idea of how well mining people are paid by looking at the average salaries for 2011 on US metal mines recently published CostMine.
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Scientific rationality aside, metals prices are about to turn for the better-Ecclestone
Mineweb | May 1, 2012It may not be a first order recovery for mining project financing, but there are more than a few reasons to be cheerful in the mining space, Hallgarten's Christopher Ecclestone suggests.
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Zimplats sees quarterly profits jump 170 pct
Mineweb | April 30, 2012A 32% increase in revenue from higher average platinum prices saw Impala Platinum's Zimbabwe unit's profits climb 170% quarter on quarter despite some labour and power shortage problems.
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Aquarius Platinum posts Q3 net loss
Mineweb | April 30, 2012The miner posted a net loss of $9.4 million for the quarter to the end of March, owing to weaker platinum prices and a drop in production on the back of poor ground conditions.
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Social responsibility in mining is basic risk management, not feel-good projects
Frik Els | April 27, 2012
Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives by mining companies operating in emerging markets in South America, Africa and Asia have become a crucial part of doing business as “above-ground risks are quickly gaining equal footing to traditional geological and engineering considerations for mining projects.”
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Surprised it lasted this long. Soviet-era palladium stockpiles said to be depleted
Frik Els | April 26, 2012
Apart from Russian reserves no longer distorting the market, South Africa's dwindling supply is bound to boost prices further.
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Asteroid miners explain just how they are going to do it
Michael Allan McCrae | April 24, 2012
Planetary Resources took the wrapper off the new company that plans to mine asteroids, and the company has half a road map on how to get precious metals out of the sky.
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Anglo American sells South African Scaw Metals Group for $430 million
Cecilia Jamasmie | April 24, 2012
Diversified miner Anglo American Plc. (LON:AAL), announced today it has sold the South African Scaw Metals Group business for $430 million to a group of partners, on a move to refocus on its core mining business.
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Wesizwe Platinum's new mine smell
Mineweb | April 22, 2012
The construction of Wesizwe's Bakubung mine is in sharp contrast to the the general gloominess that currently envelops South Africa's platinum sector
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Poll shows support for mining in space
Michael Allan McCrae | April 21, 2012
While we may receive confirmation on Tuesday that James Cameron and some Google executives are going to start mining in space, CBC asked its readers if it's even a good idea and found strong support.
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Not at the top: rare earth ranks fifth for supply risk
Michael Allan McCrae | April 19, 2012
In a supply risk index of chemical elements that are of economic value, four elements placed ahead of rare earth.
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Anglo American Platinum output falls 24%
Cecilia Jamasmie | April 19, 2012
The world’s largest refined platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats, AGPPY) says it will hit its full-year production target for 2012, despite a severe fall in production in the first quarter of this year.
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Are Google executives and James Cameron planning to mine asteroids?
Michael Allan McCrae | April 19, 2012
Speculation is mounting that group of heavy-hitting investors—including filmmaker James Cameron and Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt—may announce next week in Seattle plans to mine asteroids for minerals.
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The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights: Meet mining's 40 richest billionaires
Frik Els | April 16, 2012
MINING.com counts more than 90 billionaires involved in minerals, metals and mining on the planet with a combined wealth of well over $300 billion.
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Reports of Mugabe's death are greatly exaggerated
Frik Els | April 10, 2012
Widely circulated reports that the 88-year old were fighting for his life in a Singapore hospital were deemed to be "lies meant to destabilise Zimbabwe," according to a spokesman.
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Zimbabwe 'owns' majority of all foreign mining companies
Cecilia Jamasmie | April 5, 2012
Zimbabwe's Black Empowerment Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, announced today it has taken majority ownership of foreign-owned mining firms, which had not already given a controlling stake to black Zimbabweans.
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Half-billion South African platinum mine gets green light
Andrew Topf | April 4, 2012
The South African government has ok'd a $443-million platinum mine located north of Rustenburg.
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Precious metals investors taking big knocks adjusting to life without QE3
Frik Els | April 4, 2012
Gold dropped more than $57 or 3.4% an ounce in early afternoon trade while ever volatile silver tanked more than 6%. Platinum crashed through the $1,600 an ounce level and palladium fell almost 4%.
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Zimbabwe going swimmingly for Caledonia, but platinum rights in South Africa go missing
Frik Els | March 30, 2012
Production at Blanket in Zimbabwe doubled and the Toronto-based company said it paid direct and indirect taxes, royalties, licence fees, levies and other monies to the Government of Zimbabwe totalling $13,6 million.
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Calling Another Bottom in Gold and Silver Stocks Sector
Market Oracle | March 25, 2012The last time I called an important bottom in the precious metals sector was on December 29, 2011 (). Well, it's time for another important bottom. I believe the late December lows in the precious metals (PM) sector were THE lows for the metals, for th…
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Orezone Completes the Sale of Sega to Cluff Gold for $26.5M
Orezone Gold Corporation (ORE:TSX) is pleased to announce that it has completed the sale of its Sega Gold Project ("Sega") in Burkina Faso to Cluff Gold plc (Cluff) for total consideration of approximately US$26.5M.
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