May 27, 2012 Big miners playing game of chicken as marginal producers sink below break-even Smaller miners are waiting for production cutbacks by the market leaders to prop up prices the way Saudi-Arabia comes to the rescue of oil producing nations whenever the crude price…
May 27, 2012 Glenstrata takes shape this week The prospectus giving details of the creation of a $90 billion mining and commodities trading behemoth will find its way to the inboxes of shareholders this week.
May 27, 2012 Return to the Rio Tinto If there is one mining project anywhere in the world that could warrant the old Hollywood blockbuster title of Back to the Future it must be EMED Mining’s Rio Tinto…
May 27, 2012 Collahuasi copper mine resumes after worker death The world's No. 3 copper mine, Chile's Collahuasi, is gradually resuming mining operations following the accidental death of a worker late Saturday, spokeswoman Bernardita Fernandez told Reuters on Sunday.
May 26, 2012 Military drones for mines and tailings I can hardly wait to get my first project involving the use of a drone to monitor the performance of a mine tailings facility. These days some are so big…
May 26, 2012 McLeod Lake Indian Band divided over mine deal The group says that Chief Derek Orr and the former council breached the trust of the band’s membership by signing a revenue-sharing agreement with Terrane Metals - now owned by…
May 25, 2012 It was only a matter of time. Creditors’ lawyers descend on Baja Mining Friday's complication is just the latest setback for Vancouver-based Baja which has now lost almost 70% of its value this year.
May 25, 2012 Prophecy Platinum adds to 80% 12-month gain after Yukon project analysis Prophecy Platinum added 2.5% on Friday on double usual trading volumes, after announcing results of a full spectrum analysis of PGMs on the first batch of samples from its PGM-Ni-Cu…
May 25, 2012 Chief of Codelco quits amid legal battle with Anglo In what it seems to be the first casualty of the heated conflict between diversified miner Anglo American (LON:ALL) and its Chilean adversary Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer announced…
May 25, 2012 Impala Platinum faces potential halt to Zimplats operations due to differences with Zimbabwe’s government Zimbabwe's central bank threatened to freeze Impala Platinum's local account and ordered local banks to halt managing any of the company’s exports because it has “failed to comply with an…
Namib Minerals to restart mothballed Zimbabwe gold mine in February Redwing currently has an estimated 2.5 million ounces of gold and is the largest resource base in the group's Zimbabwean portfolio. December 19, 2025 | 07:08 am