April 19, 2012 Mongolia’s ‘ninja’ miners help sate China’s lust for gold In a hot, concrete hut filled with acetylene fumes, an elderly Mongolian miner struggles to contain her excitement as she plucks a sizzling inch-long nugget of gold from a grubby…
April 19, 2012 Are Google executives and James Cameron planning to mine asteroids? Speculation is mounting that group of heavy-hitting investors—including filmmaker James Cameron and Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt—may announce next week in Seattle plans to mine asteroids for minerals.
April 19, 2012 Rio Novo Gold announces filing of Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report for its Almas Gold Project Rio Novo Gold Inc. (TSX:RN)(TSX:RN.WT) ("Rio Novo" or the "Company") announces that a National Instrument 43-101 compliant technical report in support of the Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") of its Almas…
April 19, 2012 OZ Minerals, Southern Copper shopping for South American mines US-based Southern Copper and Australia's Oz Minerals are both looking to acquire assets in South America, according to media reports Wednesday.
April 19, 2012 Scotia Capital anticipates more gold price volatility Scotia Capital metals analysts have forecast an average gold price of $1,750/oz from 2012 through 2014.
April 18, 2012 Ivanhoe Australia: Scoping study shows 2.4B pounds copper, 2.2M ounces gold at Mount Elliott Ivanhoe Australia Limited (ASX:IVA), a separate company from $10-billion market cap Ivanhoe Mines but sharing CEO Robert Friedland, had an up-day in […]
April 18, 2012 Gold, silver rebound on seasonal demand Snapping a two-day losing trend, both the precious metals, gold and silver, recovered sharply in the national capital recently on emergence of buying by stockists at existing lower levels for…
April 18, 2012 Vale’s precious metals production at Sudbury plummets in Q1 Precious metals production at the Sudbury, Canada, operations for Brazilian diversified mining giant Vale plummeted in the first quarter, the company said Wednesday.
April 18, 2012 Randgold’s giant Kibali gold project construction getting well under way Randgold Resources seems to be on track with its construction programme on its major Kibali gold mine development in the eastern DRC, aiming for initial production before the end of…
April 18, 2012 Cambodia, once secret, is now open for business: Richard Stanger Resource investors are always looking for the next untapped region and Richard Stanger thinks he has found it.
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