January 9, 2012 Investors poured $5.9 billion into precious metal funds last year… no thanks to Paulson Hard Assets Investor reports precious metals ETFs enjoyed solid $5.9 billion inflows last year that brought total assets in the sector to just under $98.5 billion; a figure that represents…
January 9, 2012 Frac Sand (Proppant) Testing Update Stikine Energy Corp. (TSX.V: SKY) ("Stikine" or the "Company") announces it has received crush test results for samples submitted in December 2011 and has also completed a detailed review of…
January 9, 2012 Hathor Provides Corporate Update Hathor Exploration Limited (HAT:TSX) ("Hathor") confirms that approximately 119,456,310 Hathor common shares have been validly tendered to Rio Tinto plc (NYSE:RIO)(LSE:RIO)(ASX:RIO) as of 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on…
January 9, 2012 Kicked out of small town motels, Australia’s ‘coal girls’ resort to RV parks Rural communities in Australia’s mineral-rich states are unhappy about the many working girls following highly-paid miners into their small towns and motel and hotel owners are kicking out prostitutes using…
January 9, 2012 1 million Grand Canyon acres off limits to miners for the next 20 years AP reports that the Obama administration is ignoring intense lobbying from the mining industry and political opponents on the right and will formally ban new uranium mining on 1 million…
January 9, 2012 Teck acquires oil sands partner SilverBirch for C$435M Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX:TCK.A) announced today that it will acquire its oilsands partner SilverBirch Energy Corp. (TSXV:SBE) for over C$435 million.
January 9, 2012 Yanzhou/ Gloucester Coal merger has big chance of success – UBS Financial adviser UBS reckons there should be few obstacles in the way of the proposed A$2 billion merger of Chinese miner Yanzhou Coal and Australia's Gloucester Coal.
January 9, 2012 Drilling Planned for Halliday Lake Project In the summer 2011, Uravan Minerals Inc (Uravan) completed multifaceted surface geochemical sampling programs on the Halliday Lake, Math, OR Extension, and Stewardson Lake projects [Press Release Link] in the…
January 8, 2012 Mark Leftly: Rio Tinto grabs a slice of Canada’s uranium riches The battle won, now it's time to prepare for the war.
January 8, 2012 New row looming over MRRT Australia's peak mining industry body has set the scene for a renewed debate on the mining tax, arguing the sector has not agreed to a minimum amount of revenue to…
World No. 2 gold miner is ‘willing to move’ on M&A, CEO says Agnico Eagle CEO Ammar Al-Joundi said the gold producer is “very well-positioned” to pursue acquisitions should opportunities emerge. February 13, 2026 | 02:47 pm
