July 16, 2011 Ireland’s zinc mines may boom again as Xstrata buys remaining stake in Pallas Green Xstrata Zinc Canada has agreed to purchase the remaining 23.6% interest in the Pallas Green property in Ireland belonging to its current joint venture partner in the project, Minco, for…
July 16, 2011 Green jobs may be replacing aluminum with ‘urban mining’ An electronics recycling company in Badin, Washington was talking Saturday to applicants for jobs at a facility that could employ as many as 200 people. A building that once was…
July 16, 2011 Base metals edge higher in Mumbai Lead gained 45 paise/kg to close at 120.50, the outlook still positive on strong Chinese demand. Though consumption of the metal has been slow in US and Europe, rising car…
July 15, 2011 China gets picky It turns out that China is not willing to pay whatever it has to for energy and metal resources.Several resource deals have faltered in recent months, indicating an increasingly choosy…
July 15, 2011 Bullish copper technicals Copper is growing increasingly popular among speculators, who are catapulting this unassuming base metal up into the rarified ranks of market-darling commodities. Neither precious like gold, nor immediately consumed like…
July 15, 2011 Norilsk restarts Australia nickel mine mothballed during recession Norilsk Nickel, world number one nickel and palladium producer and Russia's biggest miner, announced on Friday it is restarting operations at its Maggie Hays mine near Lake Johnston in West…
July 15, 2011 Glencore to stop reporting quarterly results Glencore has decided to stop reporting its results every quarter, in a move that is likely to soothe tensions with Xstrata, the mining company in which it owns a 34…
July 15, 2011 Nickel, Tin Spurts On Global Cues Business Standard reports that tin and nickel saw a sudden jump in prices today in India after steady trading in London.
July 15, 2011 Scrap copper market supply squeezed by U.S. building slump Supplies in the U.S. copper scrap market remained tight at the start of the third quarter, as a lingering slump in industrial demolition rates made material, especially higher-grade material, harder…
July 15, 2011 North American Palladium draws bullish bets Shares in the platinum and precious metals mining company rose as much as 6.4% at the start of the session to an intraday high of $4.98 before the broad market…
Mexico says five missing staff from Canadian miner are dead The Attorney General’s Office said in a statement Monday that officials had also discovered five other bodies in the state. February 09, 2026 | 05:09 pm
