November 15, 2012

New report says civil unrest threatens Dominican Republic mining

Environmental protests are increasingly likely to cause delays and increase contract cancellation risks to nickel and gold mining.

November 13, 2012

Nautilus cancels underwater equipment construction on flagship Solwara project

No longer willing to foot the Papua New Guinea government's bill, Nautilus says it will terminate contracts with equipment suppliers.

November 9, 2012

Nickel miner Talvivaara falls on radioactive leak worries

Shares of nickel producer Talvivaara (LON:TALV) dropped down over 10% on Friday over reports the firm had failed to solve a waste water leak at a nickel and zinc mine…

November 8, 2012

Norilsk Nickel’s board approves share cancellation

The board of directors of Norilsk Nickel has approved the cancellation of 9.96% of its shares held by the subsidiary NN Investment, top officials of Interros and UC RUSAL told…

November 5, 2012

New support for Glencore-Xstrata deal

Institutional advisor ISS now says tie-up is a good thing for Xstrata, but they still don't like the $200 million retention package.

November 5, 2012

Mining’s new age of austerity will hurt consumers

Shareholders will celebrate as lower supply boosts prices and profits, but consumers of metal and minerals will be hard hit.

November 5, 2012

Vale applies to build homes at its Canadian mining sites

The company is requesting the Canadian city of Sudbury to allow the housing of hundreds of temporary construction workers at its mine, mill and smelter sites in the community.

November 4, 2012

Physicist claims China’s mysterious desert grids most likely mining related

An immense chessboard-like grid which mysteriously appeared in the deserts of China's Xinjiang province several years ago could be the result of exploratory surveys for nickel.

October 31, 2012

$16 trillion of platinum could be extracted from seawater

Space mining start-up Planetary Resources President, Chris Lewicki, made more than one eyebrow rise Wednesday as he wrote in his blog that there are about $16 trillion worth of platinum…

October 31, 2012

Canada’s economy drops as mining and oil plunge

Canada’s economy shrank 0.1% in August, the first drop in six months, driven mainly by depressed manufacturing and energy sectors, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.