October 11, 2011 Crystallex announces proposed private placement to raise up to US$120 million Crystallex International Corporation (TSX:KRY)(OTCQB:CRYXF) ("Crystallex" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that a wholly-owned subsidiary (the "Issuer") proposes to complete a best efforts private placement offering (the "Offering") of…
October 10, 2011 BHP set for the mother of all digs as $30 billion Olympic Dam expansion is approved Australia on Monday gave environmental approval for BHP Billiton to expand its Olympic Dam mine but set more than 100 environmental conditions on the uranium, copper and gold project. The…
October 10, 2011 Barclays analysis says precious metals may handle downturn best Gold, silver, platinum and palladium, as well as other commodities, generally stand a better chance of handling a global economic downturn than other types of investments, Barclays Capital said Monday.
October 10, 2011 Tintina eyes copper mine in western Montana The vice president of Canadian-based Tintina Resources, Inc. says the company is considering an underground mine to get at deep deposits of copper, silver and cobalt in western Montana.
October 10, 2011 More violence likely after striker shot dead at Grasberg, Indonesian police send reinforcements Reports on Monday say Indonesian security forces fired on striking workers at Freeport McMoRan's Grasberg mine in the country's poorest province West Papua after a protest turned violent, killing one…
October 10, 2011 Exxaro’s end to South African zinc refining ‘clearly unfortunate’ The end that black-controlled JSE-listed Exxaro Resources will put to local zinc refining by December 31 is “clearly unfortunate”, says International Zinc Association of Southern Africa regional director Rob White.
October 10, 2011 Physical buying from China drives gold rally, safe haven demand absent Gold for December delivery traded up $37.30, or 2.3%, at $1,673.10 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange in early afternoon trade Monday, after climbing more than $40 earlier…
October 9, 2011 Pyrrhic victory for Mugabe as Rio Tinto gives up control of tiny diamond mine, but likely drops $200 million expansion News reports on Saturday say Rio Tinto's Zimbabwe subsidiary Murowa Diamonds has ceded 51% of its equity to comply with a new law that requires Zimbabweans to own the majority…
October 7, 2011 Zambian miners strike Chinese-owned mines Copper miners in Zambia are joining their counterparts in Indonesia in demanding a rise in pay. The Wall Street Journal reports hundreds of miners at Chinese company Sino Metals downed…
October 7, 2011 Investors dump Talvivarra after CEO resigns Talvivarra Mining (LON:TALV) got massacred on the markets today on news that its CEO, Pekka Perä, has resigned. The London-listed Finnish base metal miner shed 55.83 pence to close at…
VIDEO: Sean Boyd on why smart money is rushing back to gold and Canada Boyd explains to Alex Deluce gold’s breakout across currencies, why critical minerals are strategic, and why Canada’s mining moment is here. December 22, 2025 | 07:07 am
