September 27, 2011

First Nickel begins ore delivery from Ontario mine

Canadian miner First Nickel Inc said it restarted production at its Lockerby nickel-copper mine in Ontario and made its first ore delivery to diversified miner Xstrata Plc's nickel business.

September 26, 2011

Prophecy Platinum up 5.69% after announcing Wellgreen results

Prophecy Platinum (CVE:NKL) was up 5.69% on Monday trading after announcing drill results at its Wellgreen project, located in Yukon. Prophecy stated […]

September 26, 2011

Be Norwegian or Australian if you want a raise

Workers in Australia and Norway are getting pay raises, and they are getting paid for staying on the job, not greater productivity.

September 26, 2011

NDP wants to keep more value-added mine work in Ontario

The Ottawa Citizen reports that the Ontario NDP, which is fighting a provincial election and challenging the incumbent Liberal Party, want to change the provincial mining act so more mine…

September 26, 2011

Prophecy drills 120.9 meters grading 1.26 g/t PGM+Au, 0.36% Ni, 0.30% Cu within 457 meters grading 0.47% NiEq at Yukon Wellgreen project

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 26, 2011) - Prophecy Platinum Corp. ("Prophecy Platinum" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:NKL)(OTCQX:PNIKF)(FRANKFURT:P94P) announces the drill results received from its 2011 drilling Wellgreen PGE-Ni-Cu Project.…

September 23, 2011

London Metal Exchange could sell out

Bloomberg reports the London Metal Exchange which handles some 80% of global trade in industrial metals futures, told members it may get a takeover offer after multiple approaches from potential…

September 23, 2011

Copper, Nickel, Tin Slump on European Debt, Global Growth Risk

Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Copper dropped to the lowest in more than a year while nickel and tin plunged as the deepening European debt crisis and threat of a U.S.…

September 22, 2011

Philippine nickel mine features ‘green’ innovations

A Norwegian mining company aiming to develop one of the world's largest nickel mines is taking extra measures to convince local populations the mine "is not what people perceive it…

September 21, 2011

China base metals demand growing 10% more than GDP

Demand growth for base metals in China is exceeding its GDP growth rate by 10 percent, and will keep growing, Fan Shunke, the president of China Non-ferrous Techno-Economic Research Institute…

September 21, 2011

Rogue Resources intersects 1.2% nickel over 29 meters at Langmuir

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 21, 2011) - Rogue Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RRS) (the "Company") is pleased to announce assay results from diamond drilling conducted on its W4 Langmuir Nickel…