May 3, 2011 Fortescue chooses Minesight software for its Pilbara iron ore ops After lengthy deliberations involving several software vendors, Fortescue Metals Group, Australia's third largest iron ore producer after BHPBilliton and Rio Tinto, has picked MineSight for its mine planning software needs.…
May 3, 2011 The silver connection is over, next stop $62 The 10% + plunge in silver has some asking if the rally is over while others are claiming the bubble has popped - neither view is accurate. Let's examine what…
May 3, 2011 India’s Nalco has raised its domestic aluminium products prices Indian state-run National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO) has raised the domestic prices of its aluminium products by 4,000 rupees ($90) per tonne, except for rolled products, a senior company official…
May 3, 2011 Silver extremely vulnerable to a sharp decline, gold overheated – CPM In an advisory scheduled to be published Thursday, New York-based CPM Group suggest "silver prices have been in a bubble-like spike over the past few weeks and are extremely vulnerable…
May 3, 2011 Month-long strike at Primero’s San Dimas gold-silver mine ends Canada's Primero Mining Corp said the month-long strike at its San Dimas gold-silver mine in Mexico had ended and it did not expect the strike to hurt its full-year production…
May 3, 2011 Seabridge adds 15-year minelife, $1.3B cost to massive KSM copper-gold project In an updated prefeasibility study of its proposed KSM mega-mine, Seabridge Gold (TSX: SEA) makes major additions to the cost, size, and operating plan of its flagship project in northwestern…
May 3, 2011 EIA forecasts coal to remain king of American electric power generation The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts coal to remain the dominant fuel for power generation until 2035 despite projected strong increases in natural gas and renewable fuel use over the…
May 3, 2011 Sandvik and Shandong Energy JV for underground coal equipment Sandvik Mining and Construction and Shandong Energy Machinery in Xintai, Shandong Province, China, have signed an agreement to form a 50/50 owned joint venture for the production and sales of…
May 2, 2011 Three Cs Going Crazy in Commodities With silver spiraling out of control, it's worth checking in on some of the other commodities. Indeed the agricultural or soft commodities have, as a group, been surging in recent…
May 2, 2011 Arch Coal Merger Consolidates Coking Space Things were already looking tight in the coking coal world before Arch Coal (ACI) decided to pay $3.4 billion for International Coal Group (ICO). The deal pays International Coal shareholders…
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
