May 19, 2012

Junior resource investment in a financial meltdown – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Rick Rule's presentation at the New York Hard Assets Conference earlier this week sees some light for the informed junior resource investor despite current patterns which have mostly been Bad…

May 18, 2012

Planetary Resources doesn’t want more people onboard its asteroids-mining ship

Less than a month after officially launching its asteroid-mining plans, Google’s billionaire co-founders and filmmaker James Cameron’s owned company Planetary Resources, has already decided not to accept any more job…

May 17, 2012

Expat execs in Africa: Without ‘danger pay’ how does the money stack up now?

Africa's economic indicators are all pointing up, but executive pay packages and living arrangements for expatriates are changing too.

May 17, 2012

Russian billionaire Prokhorov files for copper-nickel Toronto IPO

Move over Mark Zuckerberg. Russia’s Mikhail Prokhorov, who Forbes ranks as the 58th richest person globally, has filed a prospectus to list his Intergeo MMC in Toronto, announcing it the…

May 16, 2012

CaNickel to suspend blasting and mill operations

CaNickel Mining Ltd. ("CaNickel" or the "Company") (TSX:CML) reports that the Company has received a stop work order from Manitoba's Workplace Safety and Health Division to cease blasting operations at…

May 16, 2012

Falling off the supercycle: BHP puts the brakes on capex, stock hits 3-year low

“Where the industry previously lacked investment opportunities and choice, it now has more projects than cash flows. All of us in the industry are having to make choices.”

May 15, 2012

Liberty Mines continues to expand nickel mineralization at its Hart Deposit

Liberty Mines Inc. today announced results from a deep drill program on its Hart Nickel Deposit that suggests increased mineralization at depth.

May 13, 2012

Indonesian Ni Ore export tax levied 20pct

The Indonesian government enforced an export tax system effective May 6th 2012 in which 20% export tax is levied on 14 mineral products of Indonesian origin including nickel ore. As…

May 11, 2012

Vale invokes force majeure at nickel project

Vale, the world's second-biggest nickel producer, said on Thursday it would suspend sales and purchase agreements at its Goro project on the French Pacific island of New Caledonia after an…

May 10, 2012

Nickel price alarm bells ring for Mirabela

Perth-based Mirabela Nickel's share price has continued to slide today after dropping 30 per cent yesterday, which prompted a "please explain" by the Australian Securities Exchange and a one-day trading…