May 30, 2012 Baja Mining lays off 40% of staff and seeks funding for Boleo Troubled Vancouver miner, Baja Mining (TSE:BAJ), said that it laid off 40% of its staff to conserve cash and admitted that there is "no assurance" that it will find funding…
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 28, 2012 Canadian Selwyn Resources evaluating smaller plan for zinc leading project Canadian miner Selwyn Resources (CVE:SWN) stocks were falling almost 17% this morning as the company said it was evaluating a smaller tonnage mine plan for its flagship zinc and lead…
May 27, 2012 Big miners playing game of chicken as marginal producers sink below break-even Smaller miners are waiting for production cutbacks by the market leaders to prop up prices the way Saudi-Arabia comes to the rescue of oil producing nations whenever the crude price…
May 27, 2012 Glenstrata takes shape this week The prospectus giving details of the creation of a $90 billion mining and commodities trading behemoth will find its way to the inboxes of shareholders this week.
May 26, 2012 Military drones for mines and tailings I can hardly wait to get my first project involving the use of a drone to monitor the performance of a mine tailings facility. These days some are so big…
May 25, 2012 It was only a matter of time. Creditors’ lawyers descend on Baja Mining Friday's complication is just the latest setback for Vancouver-based Baja which has now lost almost 70% of its value this year.
May 23, 2012 Board resignation Southeast Asia Mining Corp, a junior exploration and mining company currently focused in Thailand, announces that Stephen McIntyre and Kerry Smith have resigned from the board of directors of the…
May 19, 2012 Hudbay Discontinues Planned Offering of US$400,000,000 Senior Unsecured Notes HudBay Minerals Inc. ("Hudbay") (TSX:HBM)(NYSE:HBM) today announced that due to market conditions it is discontinuing the planned offering of US$400 million senior unsecured notes due 2020, which it had previously…
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…
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