March 21, 2011 Company training up truck drivers ONE hundred and fifty kilometres from the nearest mine site, potential operators are learning the nuts and bolts of driving giant CAT haul trucks. Familiarising themselves with the machine, feeling…
March 21, 2011 Lundin tells shareholders to rejects Equinox bid Lundin Mining has rejected the hostile takeover bid mounted last month by Australia-based Equinox Minerals. Canadian Press reported Sunday that Lundin told its shareholders to reject a debt-financed takeover bid…
March 20, 2011 Disaster in Japan won’t affect uranium sales, says Australian PM Despite the crash in uranium stocks last week, including a 15% drop in Rio Tinto majority-owned Energy Resources of Australia, Australian PM Julia Gillard insists the Japanese crisis will not…
March 20, 2011 Coal explorer Carabella raises $29m Coal explorer Carabella Resources says it has raised $29 million via a significantly oversubscribed placement to institutional and sophisticated investors, AAP reported: The company placed 16.08 million shares at a…
March 20, 2011 Endeavour Silver’s educational videos on how silver is mined A new educational video on how silver is formed and mined has been commissioned by Canadian miner Endeavour Silver and the first […]
March 20, 2011 Canadian Orebodies Drills Widespread Tantalum Mineralization on Zigzag Property Canadian Orebodies Inc. (TSX-V:CO) announced assay results which demonstrate a zone of strong tantalum values over a 670 meter strike length from the initial drilling program on the Tebishogeshik showing…
March 20, 2011 Rio Tinto faces key week for Riversdale bid Riversdale Mining Ltd., after a slow take-up of acceptances since the offer was first made in December, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal: The bid was recently…
March 20, 2011 Russian nuclear firm suspends uranium mining deal in Tanzania The East African reports that the Russian state-owned nuclear energy firm JSC Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ) is shelving a plan to acquire the $1.16 billion Mkuju Uranium assets in Southern Tanzania over…
March 19, 2011 Uralkali, Silvinit to mine 10.6 million tonnes of potash Reuters reported that Russian potash miners Uralkali (URKA.MM) and Silvinit (SILV.MM) expect to produce a combined 10.6 million tonnes of potash this year, up from 10.3 million tonnes in 2010.
March 19, 2011 Japan quake fails to rattle potash Potash Investing News reports on how the Japanese earthquake and tsunami have impacted the market for potash: While grain prices have been experiencing volatility in the aftermath of Japan’s earthquake,…
Ioneer eyes bid for Rio Tinto’s US boron unit Boron, an element mineral with few producers, was added to the US list of critical minerals last month. December 12, 2025 | 02:49 pm
