October 17, 2012 Regional court sides with RUSAL in Norilsk Nickel buyback dispute The Krasnoyarsk regional court has deemed that Norilsk Nickel and Vladimir Potanin's Interros are affiliated bodies, thus siding with UC RUSAL's claim.
October 17, 2012 Oil and coal save BHP’s September quarter results BHP Billiton (ASX,LON,NYSE:BHP), the world’s biggest miner by market value, posted Wednesday a weaker than expected September quarter from its West Australian iron ore mines as the company’s work on…
October 15, 2012 Qatar sees Glencore/Xstrata merger positively Qatar's sovereign investment fund, the second largest shareholder in Xstrata PLC (LON:XTA) with 12% of equity, confirmed Monday it is looking positively at the company's planned merger with Glencore International…
October 12, 2012 Marifil resumes operatorship of Las Aguilas John Hite, President of Marifil, comments: "While we are disappointed that Prophecy Platinum has elected not to move forward with Las Aguilas, we remain excited about the property and the…
October 11, 2012 INFOGRAPHIC: Nickel, where form meets function While best known for it's use in the 5 cent coin, nickel has farm more strategic uses.
October 5, 2012 Kloppers offloads $5 million BHP stock. Don’t worry it’s just a tax thing At the same time the 50-year-old boss of the world's number one miner also pocketed 300,000 BHP shares worth more than $10 million thanks to the company's employee share incentive…
October 5, 2012 Asteroid-mining firm hiring “space nuts” and interns Google’s billionaire co-founders and filmmaker James Cameron’s owned asteroid-mining focused Planetary Resources is hiring interns for 2013.
October 2, 2012 The “boom” might be over but Kiwis still flock to Australia A record number of skilled New Zealanders involved in trade are leaving their country to take up higher paying jobs in Australia.
September 29, 2012 Ancient Buddhist statue found in Tibet carved from meteorite A Buddha statue looted by Nazis in Tibet in the 1930s was carved from the Chinga meteorite, which crashed to the Earth 15,000 years ago, revealed Elmar Buchner of the…
Codelco, SQM seal lithium venture in Chile’s Atacama desert NovaAndino Litio, the venture, will control all lithium exploration, production and sales in the Atacama salar until 2060. December 27, 2025 | 09:38 am
