July 26, 2011 Mitsui Mining, other Japanese companies sign $1.4 billion loan pact with banks for Chile resources project Dow Jones )- Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. (5706.TO) and other Japanese companies said Tuesday that their joint venture in Chile has signed a combined $1.4 billion loan pact with…
July 26, 2011 Aquarius boosts Q4 output 3 pct, but SA volumes fell short The world’s fourth-largest platinum miner Aquarius Platinum increased its attributable production by 3% year-on-year to 114 260 platinum group metal (PGM) ounces, but CEO Stuart Murray said on Tuesday volumes…
July 26, 2011 Nickel price prospects looking increasingly grim With the metal production in surplus, Western industrial growth seemingly stalled and Chinese demand slack prospects for the nickel price are seen as precarious
July 26, 2011 Xstrata posts flat H1 for copper, coal Xstrata, the fourth-largest global diversified miner, had reported a drop in copper output in the first quarter, hit by severe weather conditions at its Collahuasi mine in Chile.
July 26, 2011 Can Goldman, Morgan Stanley recover commodities moxie? At the once-feared commodity trading arms of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the pressure to do better in the second half of this year has never been more intense.
July 25, 2011 Test plant to examine a new cost-effective way to process nickel laterites A new cost-effective way to process nickel laterites known as the DNi Process will be thoroughly examined by a test plant currently being built in Western Australia.
July 25, 2011 Sterlite Industries (India): Metal production up 4% in Q1 Sterlite Industries (India) Limited (SIIL) today announced its unaudited consolidated results for the first quarter (“Q1”) ended 30 June 2011.
July 25, 2011 Victory Nickel completes reporting of North Limb drilling at Minago Project Victory Nickel Inc. CA:NI today announced further results from drilling conducted on the North Limb nickel-mineralized domain at its 100% owned Minago Nickel Project located on the Thompson Nickel Belt…
July 25, 2011 Winnipeg Free Press: First Nickel sets up nickel and copper hedge facility First Nickel Inc. (TSX:FNI) has finalized copper and nickel hedging contracts with two international banks that will help the miner begin operations again in northern Ontario, the Winnipeg Free Press…
July 25, 2011 Quadra FNX output up 20% in Q2, to restart nickel-ore mining Vancouver-based Quadra FNX Mining increased second-quarter copper production by 20% compared with the first three months of the year, and still expects to meet its full-year forecast of within 10%…
Gabon to audit mining deals as reforms start amid IMF talks As part of discussions with the multilateral lender, President Brice Oligui Nguema “has demanded the full publication of all mining agreements". December 19, 2025 | 10:51 am