June 19, 2012 Rio Tinto invests $600 million to extend life of Utah copper mine Rio Tinto Copper's Chief Executive, Andrew Harding, said the investment will secure low cost copper, gold and molybdenum production for the company in next two decades.
June 19, 2012 Opawica Explorations Inc. and San Gold Corp. enter Into a purchase and sale agreement for properties The properties to be sold by Opawica to San Gold are the Atikwa Lake gold property, the Whitesides-Carscallen property and the Golden property, all of which are located in Ontario.
June 18, 2012 Major shareholder sues Baja Mining over ballooning costs, management Baja says it "intends to defend this action vigorously."
June 18, 2012 Prophecy’s positive PEA prompts 12% gain After announcing an economic report today, shares in Prophecy Platinum traded hands at six times their usual volume.
June 18, 2012 Nautilus dispute with Papua New Guinea authorities threatening underwater mining future Canada-based Nautilus Minerals Inc. (TSX:NUS)(OTCQX:NUSMF)(AIM:NUS) said Monday that despite several meetings with Papua New Guinea's government representatives in the last two weeks, the company is still battling authorities in regards…
June 18, 2012 No one buys Congo’s mining assets on the cheap: Government The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ministry of Mines went on the defensive on Monday about allegedly granting mining licenses to companies with close connections to the government. It qualified those…
June 18, 2012 First Nickel optimizes Lockerby Mine plan, resulting in an $87 million NPV First Nickel has updated and optimized its mine plan, result in a new $86.9 million net present value.
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 15, 2012 DeepGreen’s Clipperton project would make Nautilus’ Solwara 1 project look like ‘child’s play’ Peter Koven at the National Post looks at the Vancouver-based DeepGreen Resources, a private company that just signed 50% off-take agreement with mining giant Glencore International.
June 15, 2012 Dia Bras announces termination of letter of intent to acquire Plexmar Plexmar announced that the letter of intent dated April 17th, 2012 between Dia Bras and Plexmar has been terminated.
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