MINING.COM Staff Writer

Calgary Herald reports Calgary-based Connacher Oil & Gas Ltd. said it, along with Alberta Oil Sands Inc., will sell the entire working interest in Halfway Creek oilsands leases in northeast Alberta to focus on its core Great Divide assets. Connacher Oil, which owns oilsands leases in Alberta, holds 50 per cent in Halfway Creek, while the remaining is held by Alberta Oil Sands.

The company looking to build a $1.5 billion iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin has stopped the project until state lawmakers agree […]

Brazilian mining giant Vale said on Tuesday it rerouted 391,000 tonnes of iron ore, its first cargo aboard a new class of giant bulk carriers, to Italy from its original destination of China. The cargo is being shipped aboard the Vale Brasil, the world's largest dry-bulk vessel, a ship designed to reduce the cost of shipping the main steel ingredient to China. Despite the rerouting Vale said the so-called Valemax carriers will be able to enter three Chinese ports.

The Financial Times reports Greek citizens are emptying savings accounts and buying gold as they brace themselves for the possibility of a sovereign default and a run on the banks. Pledges by socialist prime minister George Papandreou that his government would “save the country” have been widely discounted by the public.