December 14, 2012

Fantastic mining facts for the festive season

Mining IQ has published its 4th edition of the Weird and Wonderful World of Mining just in time for Christmas

December 14, 2012

Mundoro receives approval for two additional exploration licenses and provides update on Serbia exploration program

Mundoro Capital reports approval for two additional exploration licenses and provides update on Serbia exploration program.

December 14, 2012

Argonaut Exploration Inc. updates Lucky Luke mine, Cordillera mine and Dorreen mine status and gold results

Argonaut has completed two late fall geologic field examinations directed at locating and sampling the historic Lucky Luke and Cordillera Gold Mines.

December 13, 2012

Nevada Copper announces positive feasibility study results for stage 1 underground mine

First production targeted for early 2015, with an initial mine life of 12 years.

December 12, 2012

Taseko Mines weathers multiple storms

Canadian Taseko Mines (TSE:TKO) is having a rocky end of the year as workers threaten with a strike at the company’s copper-molybdenum Gibraltar mine, in British Columbia, and First Nation…

December 12, 2012

Xstrata puts off $5.9bn mine in Philippines until 2019

Swiss miner Xstrata (LON:XTA) is delaying the commercial production of its $5.9 billion Tampakan copper-gold project in the Philippines to 2019, Sagittarius Mines Inc, the firm's local unit, said Wednesday.

December 12, 2012

A critical year in review: what’s next?

As the year comes to a close and we prepare to extend our coverage further, we are revisiting our most popular expert interviews from 2012.

December 12, 2012

Aussie mining boom is far from bust – shift to operational stage will see better spreading of benefits

Spoils of the country's resources bounty will be better distributed as the mining sector enters an operational phase

December 11, 2012

$27 billion injected into Amazonia mining by 2016

Vale's Carajas iron ore mine is the biggest but some 60 gold explorers are also active in the Brazilian region.

December 11, 2012

Aussie miners told ‘death’ only excuse for not working on Christmas

Miners who don’t show up to work the Christmas and New Year period at Sandfire Resources’ DeGrussa copper and gold mine in Western Australia, are being threatened with major fines…