June 16, 2011 Pershimco adds more copper to the mix below La Pava gold deposit Geologists suspected there would be significant copper below Pershimco Resources' (TSX-V: PRO) La Pava gold deposit at its Cerro Quema project in Panama. In drilling La Pava during the mid-1990s,…
June 16, 2011 SouthGobi Selects Modular for mine management solution Modular Mining Systems, one of the world leaders in information management solutions for mining operations, has announced that SouthGobi Resources has chosen to implement the Modular IntelliMine Integrated Asset Management…
June 15, 2011 Nyrstar to spend $639m on Breakwater Nyrstar (NYR.BR: Quote), the world's biggest zinc producer, is to buy Canada's Breakwater (BWR.TO:Quote) for C$619 million ($639 million) as it carries out its strategy to buy more mines and…
June 15, 2011 BHP, Minmetals, First Quantum to up Zambian copper exploration Bloomberg reports BHP Billiton Ltd., the largest mining company, Minmetals Resources Ltd. and First Quantum Minerals Ltd. are stepping up copper exploration in Zambia after prices for the metal more…
June 15, 2011 Zambia says needs to reduce reliance on copper Mining Weekly reports Zambia is keen to diversify its mining sector and wants more exploration in iron-ore, manganese, coal and uranium, Vice-President George Kunda said on Wednesday. Speaking at a…
June 15, 2011 Gold, silver, base metals. All feature in new Yukon drilling results Get set for a pace of drilling and exploration results from the Yukon even more blistering this year than the last. By way of yardstick, 2010 was stellar for exploration…
June 15, 2011 HudBay Minerals intersects 2.4% copper equivalent over 120 meters at Constancia’s Pampacancha Deposit HudBay Minerals Inc. (TSX:HBM)(NYSE:HBM) today announced exploration results from the Pampacancha zone at the company’s Constancia project in Peru. Hole PO-11-072 intersected two […]
June 14, 2011 What will Humala do to Peru’s mining industry and for its people? In a guest blog post for Oxfam America, Keith Slack, Extractive Industries Campaign Manager wrote that Peru’s new President Ollanta Humala “is generally viewed as bad news for the country’s…
June 14, 2011 Xstrata to begin iron ore shipments from Australia Xstrata Plc will start exporting iron ore concentrate to Asian buyers from Australia on Wednesday as part of a A$589 million redesign of its Ernest Henry copper and gold mine,…
June 14, 2011 New 50% bigger Kalukundi copper/cobalt project study awarded South Africa's MDM Engineering Group has been awarded the increased throughput design update and cost revalidation of the Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) for Africo Resources' Kalukundi copper/cobalt project, located in…
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