June 17, 2012 Australia: Mine, all mine By having too much of a good thing, the argument goes, Australia, or the “quarry in China’s backyard”, has become too dependent on commodity-led growth. That has made it lazy…
June 17, 2012 Why I’m buying this global mining giant Diversified Australian resources company BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) has its hands in nearly every commodity that can be pulled out of the ground.
June 15, 2012 Dia Bras announces termination of letter of intent to acquire Plexmar Plexmar announced that the letter of intent dated April 17th, 2012 between Dia Bras and Plexmar has been terminated.
June 15, 2012 Violence erupts at Glencore’s Bolivian mine It is believed that the violence resulted from Glencore workers trying to forcefully take back control from a rival Bolivian state-based company.
June 15, 2012 End of an epoch as Hong Kong exchange takes over 135-year old LME The three losing bids were all from the US and the deal marks a decisive shift in the commodities trading business away from Chicago and London to Asia.
June 14, 2012 Myanmar: what investors need to know American based sanctions removed, over $2 billion invested and host to the South Asian Games.
June 14, 2012 Scathing report calls India’s 2,600 mines ‘out of control’ Illegality in the mining sector has deprived state governments of badly needed revenues, threatened the industry with costly and unpredictable shutdowns, and generated political chaos that helped bring down two…
June 13, 2012 Mining companies should chase more M&As – JPMorgan Asset manager at JPMorgan, Neil Gregson, says mining companies should pursue more takeovers as escalating costs prompt them to slow spending on expansions.
June 12, 2012 Prairie Creek Mine gets OK from aboriginal affairs CBC reports that Canadian Zinc (TSE:CZN) has passed another milestone in getting its zinc-silver-lead-copper Prairie Creek Mine up and running with an OK from John Duncan, the minister of Aboriginal…
June 9, 2012 Teck announces five-year labour deal with Trail employees Teck Resources, Canada's largest diversified miner, reached a five-year agreement with unionized employees at its Trail Operations.
SolGold agrees to $1.2 billion takeover by top investor Jiangxi Copper This was Jiangxi's third proposal to acquire the company. December 24, 2025 | 08:03 am
