April 5, 2011 The West Australian reports a loss of mine workers to the east coast Western Australia could struggle to find the people needed to exploit the biggest mining boom in more than a century, the West Australian reports, because of fly-in, fly-out workers heading…
April 5, 2011 Australian mining: new online forum launched to discuss skills shortage in mining industry Australian Mining has announced that a new online forum has been developed to discuss issues of the skills shortage in the mining sector in Australia. Mining for Skills, developed by…
April 5, 2011 Nunatsiaq Online reports on Greenland’s mine school: quality learning, in English Reporters from Nunatsiaq Online hear from Hans Henrichsen, manager of the Greenland School of Minerals and Petroleum in Sisimiut. "We are taking the best of the best in Greenland. Our…
April 4, 2011 Gold and Silver’s Daily Review for 4th April 2011 Overnight Asia lifted the gold price to $1,432. After London opened and the Fix was set at $1,432.50 and €1,008.16 gold traded higher $1,437.35 and €1,011.26 where it held through…
April 4, 2011 Midway Gold announces positive prefeasibility study for Pan Gold Project, Nevada Midway Gold Corp. (TSX.V and NYSE Amex: MDW) announces the results of a positive Prefeasibility Study of its Pan gold project located in White Pine County, Nevada. The accompanying National…
April 4, 2011 Friday in Gold and Silver All was quiet in the gold market on Friday until the jobs numbers came out at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time yesterday...then gold got hit for over twenty bucks.
April 4, 2011 US Nickel: Tapping an Historic Vein The name US Nickel at this point in time is not exactly a total misnomer but could reflect the major shift in recent times into the Australian gold space. However,…
April 4, 2011 Rodinia Lithium announces commencement of Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Salar De Diablillos Rodinia Lithium Inc. (TSX-V:RM)(OTCQX:RDNAF) has commenced work to has commenced work to aggressively accelerate completion of a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") of its Salar de Diablillos property in Argentina following…
April 4, 2011 New Gold acquires Richfield for $550M nnounced today. Under the arrangement, Richfield shareholders will receive 0.9217 of a New Gold share for each Richfield share, valued at $10.38. The offer represents a 31% premium to Richfield's…
April 4, 2011 China’s Minmetals makes surprise C$6.3 bn offer for copper miner Equinox Equinox’s hard-fought battle for Lundin may be aborted by a financially superior hostile bid for Equinox by China Minmetals’ subsidiary Minmetals Resources.
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