March 9, 2015 Rio Tinto to axe hundreds of jobs as part of drastic restructuring The company recently announced its intention to merge the copper and coal divisions, reducing Rio's businesses to just four main groups.
March 9, 2015 Struggling Australian junior to grow cannabis in Canada The move makes of Capital Mining the first ASX-listed, Canada-based company to hold a stake in a licensed marijuana grower.
March 6, 2015 Cameco gets approval for its Australian Kintyre uranium mine After more than four years of consultation and environmental studies, the miner has been granted conditional approval by Western Australia’s authorities.
March 5, 2015 Fission Uranium’s Randhawa ‘smells a flip’ Latest find turns Athabasca deposit into a "two headed monster" says Fission CEO, who's gathering banks, miners and private equity for "an auction".
March 5, 2015 Favourable tax measures announced for mining investors The government has extended the 15% Mineral Exploration Tax Credit for investors in flow-through shares for an additional year, until March 31, 2016.
March 3, 2015 Australia can leverage its “doorstep” position with Asia to drive uranium exports – Toro Energy executive PDAC delegates in Toronto told overnight that emerging powerhouse economies would drive the future global demand for uranium, nowhere more so than that from China and India.
March 3, 2015 Mongolia fined $100M for expropriating uranium mine An international arbitration tribunal has ordered Mongolia to fork over $100 million for expropriating the Dornod uranium project from Khan Resources (CNSX:KRI) back in 2009.
March 3, 2015 Fission Uranium Corp eyes minority investor as discovery grows more exciting Fission Uranium Corp. is looking to sell a sizable minority stake in itself as its massive uranium discovery in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin continues to expand.
March 2, 2015 Fission Hits Off-Scale on Land, 555m West of Triple R High-Grade, Shallow Depth, Wide Mineralization
March 2, 2015 Poor market conditions put major chill on global exploration Global exploration spending dropped 26% in last year, compared with 2013, as several juniors threw in the towel and producing miners slammed the brakes on capital and exploration expenditure.
Copper price heads toward $12,000 a ton as banks predict further gains With year-end approaching, copper on the London Metal Exchange is up nearly 40%, marking its biggest annual gain since 2009. December 22, 2025 | 07:00 am
