July 13, 2011

Kagara boosts quarterly zinc production

Zinc and copper producer Kagara posted a 121 per cent jump in zinc production for the June quarter on reduced cash costs of 74 US cents (69.60 Australian cents) per…

July 12, 2011

Continental Gold Drills 18.1 m @ 24.89 g/t Gold and 63 g/t Silver at Veta Sur and Announces New Sediment-Hosted Gold-Silver-Zinc-Lead Discovery at the Buritica Project, Colombia

Continental Gold Limited (TSE:CNL) reports results for nineteen diamond drill-holes from its ongoing program at its Buriticá project in Antioquia, Colombia.

July 12, 2011

Zinc futures up on global cues

Supported by pick-up in spot demand and a better trend at the London Metal Exchange, zinc futures prices rose 0.39 per cent today. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, zinc for…

July 11, 2011

China hikes smelting, steel capacity cuts

Reuters Africa reports that China has ordered local governments to cut a total 2.04 million tonnes of aluminium, copper, lead and zinc smelting capacity in 2011.

July 11, 2011

Base metals fall on Italy debt worries, supply in focus

Reuters reports that nickel went untraded today, but still managed to fall as copper, aluminum and zinc also fell.

July 11, 2011

Sumitomo Metal Mining zinc and lead operations at Harima smelter set for major revamp

Sumitomo Metal Mining Company Limited in a move designed to enhance the company’s competitive position in zinc smelting operations has decided to terminate processing of zinc and lead concentrates which…

July 11, 2011

LME non ferrous trading climbs 16 per cent in H1 2011

LME non-ferrous trading climbs 16 per cent in H1, 2011 Read more : non-ferrous metals,ferrous metals,lme,commodity derivatives LONDON (Commodity Online): Non-ferrous trading registered a growth of 16% in volumes at…

July 8, 2011

Breakaway Resources – Altia joint venture: further drilling planned

Breakaway Resources Limited (ASX: BRW) is pleased to advise that BHP Billiton Minerals Pty Ltd (ASX: BHP - "BHP Billiton") is proposing further diamond drilling under a Farm-in and Joint…

July 7, 2011

Trevali announces $15 million non-brokered private placement

Trevali Mining announced that it has arranged a non-brokered private placement of up to 10,000,000 common shares at a price of CDN $1.50 per common share to raise gross proceeds…

July 7, 2011

Trading opportunity seen in zinc and lead: SMC Global

Zinc and Lead have shown stunning recovery recently as Greece passed austerity measures but this will be short lived and it is only relief measure because overall euro zone problems…