June 19, 2012 Rio Tinto invests $600 million to extend life of Utah copper mine Rio Tinto Copper's Chief Executive, Andrew Harding, said the investment will secure low cost copper, gold and molybdenum production for the company in next two decades.
June 19, 2012 Opawica Explorations Inc. and San Gold Corp. enter Into a purchase and sale agreement for properties The properties to be sold by Opawica to San Gold are the Atikwa Lake gold property, the Whitesides-Carscallen property and the Golden property, all of which are located in Ontario.
June 18, 2012 Major shareholder sues Baja Mining over ballooning costs, management Baja says it "intends to defend this action vigorously."
June 18, 2012 Prophecy’s positive PEA prompts 12% gain After announcing an economic report today, shares in Prophecy Platinum traded hands at six times their usual volume.
June 18, 2012 Nautilus dispute with Papua New Guinea authorities threatening underwater mining future Canada-based Nautilus Minerals Inc. (TSX:NUS)(OTCQX:NUSMF)(AIM:NUS) said Monday that despite several meetings with Papua New Guinea's government representatives in the last two weeks, the company is still battling authorities in regards…
June 18, 2012 No one buys Congo’s mining assets on the cheap: Government The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ministry of Mines went on the defensive on Monday about allegedly granting mining licenses to companies with close connections to the government. It qualified those…
June 18, 2012 First Nickel optimizes Lockerby Mine plan, resulting in an $87 million NPV First Nickel has updated and optimized its mine plan, result in a new $86.9 million net present value.
June 17, 2012 End of the supercycle is also spelling the end of radical resource nationalism "Natural resources companies with a pipeline of, say, five projects in five different countries are now likely to build just two or three of those. Thus, executives have the power…
June 17, 2012 Australia: Mine, all mine By having too much of a good thing, the argument goes, Australia, or the “quarry in China’s backyard”, has become too dependent on commodity-led growth. That has made it lazy…
June 17, 2012 Why I’m buying this global mining giant Diversified Australian resources company BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) has its hands in nearly every commodity that can be pulled out of the ground.
BHP puts Anglo in ‘rearview mirror’ as CEO eyes Canada copper “I’m hopeful that in five years time, 10 years time, there’ll be further investments that we can make into Canadian resources,” Mike Henry said. December 19, 2025 | 12:32 pm
