May 31, 2012 Outer Harbour 1, Olympic Dam-Jansen 0: BHP gets final approval for $20 billion iron ore expansion There are "growing signs" that Outer Harbour will take precedence over BHP's massive Olympic Dam project and the greenfield Jansen potash venture in Canada.
May 31, 2012 Why isn’t this copper miner smiling? He’s getting a $45 million bonus just for staying on In all $265 million will be doled out to senior management at Xstrata to stop them from jumping ship after a merger with Glencore. The two companies are also paying…
May 31, 2012 Glenstrata ready to become the largest mining industry merger in recent history The prospectus giving details of the creation of a $90 billion mining and commodities trading behemoth will finally find its way to the inboxes of shareholders today.
May 31, 2012 Driller says West Africa is hot and Peru is cold Energold Drilling (TSX VENTURE:EGD) beat back a commodity overhang in 2012 and announced a 134% increase in revenue, growing from $22.7 million to $53.3 million.
May 30, 2012 Olympic Dam decision pushed to the wire If the board of the world's largest miner does not make a decision on the giant copper-gold-uranium-silver project in South Australia's outback by 8 December then it would lose all…
May 29, 2012 Closed Idaho silver mine to start rehiring in July A northern Idaho silver mine that was shut down after a series of accidents last year, including the deaths of two miners, will start rehiring in July and should have…
May 29, 2012 Silvercorp says work interrupted at mine in China Canadian Silvercorp Metals (TSX: SVM-News)(NYSE: SVM-News), China’s biggest silver miner, said Monday that production at its flagship silver-lead-zinc Ying Mine will be interrupted for about five days as a result…
May 29, 2012 Impact Silver reports weaker first quarter earnings Impact Silver reported on Tuesday a net loss of $0.1 million in the first quarter of 2012 compared with $2.5 million in net earnings for Q1 2011. Earnings per share…
May 29, 2012 IMAGE GALLERY: Barrick’s 3,800 metre high Pascua-Lama project Barrick Gold posted a cool image gallery of its Pascua-Lama project.
May 29, 2012 Tiny El Salvador needs mining but worries about water contamination The government of El Salvador is warning that the future large-scale development of the Cerro Blanco mine in southern Guatemala will greatly endanger the quality of water found in the…
Precious metals craze prompts China fund to turn away investors UBS SDIC Fund had become increasingly concerned that investors could be exposed to heavy losses should a record-breaking bull market suddenly turn. December 27, 2025 | 08:00 am
