August 22, 2012 Meet the Israeli middleman said to have ‘stripped and flipped’ First Quantum’s DRC mine Gertler, 38, used his relationship with DRC president Joseph Kabila and Kabila's now late adviser Augustin Katumba Mwanke to bag mining projects "by stripping from others if necessary, only to sell…
August 22, 2012 BHP ditches Olympic Dam as profit tumbles The world's number one miner, BHP Billiton, has delayed its $30 billion Olympic Dam copper-uranium expansion and said no major projects would be approved until June 2013 as it tries…
August 21, 2012 Harper pushes for regulatory regime certainty, and rides ATV Mine reviews need clearly defined timelines, timelier reviews, reduced regulatory burdens and less duplication during assessment, said Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a tour of the Minto Mine in the…
August 21, 2012 Baja Mining reports on status of stage I financing and provides corporate update Baja Mining announces that the aggregate $90 million comprising the Stage I financing which was to have been advanced to MMB by the Korean Consortium has not yet been fully…
August 21, 2012 INFOGRAPHIC: When will the world’s resource cupboard be bare? BBC charted the expected lifespans of various resources like silver, coal and forests.
August 21, 2012 Andover reports assay results from the 2012 drill program at SUN property, Ambler mineral belt, Alaska "We have retained mine development associates of Reno, Nevada to complete a National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource calculation and a preliminary economic assessment for the SUN Deposit after the 2012…
August 21, 2012 Pershimco intercepts 120m @ 0.56% copper & 267m @ 0.89g/t gold The company reports drill hole PDH-11014 returned from surface a long gold intercept of 267m at 0.89 g/t Au including 120m at 0.56% Cu.
August 20, 2012 Philippine miners duck taxes by selling gold on the black market Philippine gold production dropped by over half, but the reduction may have more to do with tax policy than actual output.
August 20, 2012 Turquoise Hill paid $61 million to departing Friedland and co Severance packages for management, early vesting options and cancelling contracts with Friedland-owned companies for aircraft rental and other office services quickly added up.
August 20, 2012 Lonmin strikers given 24 hour reprieve Only about a third of a 28,000-strong workforce reported for their shifts at Lonmin's Marikana platinum operations in South Africa. The London-based miner said workers who did not show up…
US development-finance agency targets AI, minerals in expansion A key priority for the DFC’s expanded efforts will be critical minerals, especially in mid-stream processing projects. December 18, 2025 | 12:30 pm
