June 18, 2012 Prophecy Coal to purchase Tethys Mining exploration licenses Drill results of the agreed upon regions estimated to at 540 million tonnnes of thermal coal.
June 18, 2012 L&L Energy buys majority stake in Chinese coal mine US-based L&L Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLEN), a company with five-year track record of profitable coal operations in China, announced it has entered into an MOU to acquire the Lashu Mine…
June 18, 2012 Australia sets conditions to Rinehart’s $6.4 billion coal mine project Australian environment minister, Tony Burke, has told GVK and #4 mining billionaire Gina Rinehart to improve four areas of their $6.4 billion Alpha Coal project if they want to gain…
June 18, 2012 Alpha cut accident rates at coal mines formerly owned by Massey Energy: prosecutors Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) has drastically cut its accident and injury rates in the six months since a landmark $210 million settlement, which spared the company criminal charges over…
June 18, 2012 Yamana Gold to acquire Extorre for $400 million, aiming for 18% dividend boost Canadian Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX:YRI) (NYSE:AUY)(LSE:YAU) announced a $400 million acquisition Monday of Argentina-focused junior miner Extorre Gold Mines (AMEX:XG) (TSX:XG), which has an appealing gold-silver project in the South…
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 Japan’s restart, supply shortages could see uranium price return to $70 Apart from developments in Japan and the expiry of the Russia-US nuclear weapons agreement Beijing restarting its construction programme after a review will support oxide prices.
June 17, 2012 Physical precious metals versus their ETFs: which is best for you Your risk tolerance, capital, and access to the futures markets will determine whether you’ll play precious metals in the futures markets or not.
June 17, 2012 Cliffs slashes thermal coal sales, production volume expectations at W.Va. mine Cleveland-based Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. said June 15 that it is reducing its full-year 2012 thermal coal sales and production volume expectations to approximately 800,000 tons from 1.1 million tons…
South32 posts nearly 17% jump in quarterly manganese output The world's biggest manganese producer produced 1.3 million wet metric tons of the steel additive for the December quarter. January 21, 2026 | 02:06 pm
