April 20, 2011 Trevali Mining getting $30m loan to fast-track production With a new loan close to being secured, Trevali may soon join the ranks of bona fide miners, producing at two poly-metallic […]
April 18, 2011 Capstone Mining to acquire Far West Mining in $725 million deal; shares down seven percent Capstone Mining will acquire all the issued and outstanding shares of Far West Mining. Total transaction value will be Can$725 million. Capstone released details of the agreement in a press…
April 18, 2011 Is commodities boom nearing its end? The commodity bull has shown little sign of running out of steam - until now. Prices began to stumble as soon as a note from Goldman Sachs, the American banking…
April 16, 2011 Hondo Minerals to start-up processing facility at Tennessee mine Hondo Minerals Corp has announced the expansion of its operational infrastructure in preparation for the opening of a processing facility at the Tennessee mine in Arizona.
April 15, 2011 NovaGold releases PEA for Ambler project, Alaska NovaGold Resources released a prefeasibility study today on its 100%-owned Ambler project in northwest Alaska. The Vancouver-based company is exploring the sprawling 36,670-hectare property, which is host to a number…
April 14, 2011 Goldman’s near-term bearish turn on commodities Yesterday was quite a weak day in the commodity markets, with a few staging outside reversals on their charts. It appears some […]
April 14, 2011 China’s commodity feast far from over When a Chinese vase that might be barely a century old fetched $18 million recently at a Sotheby’s auction in New York—obliterating its pre-sale estimate of just $1,000—that was surely…
April 14, 2011 Glencore to seek as much as $12.1bn in London, Hong Kong IPO Glencore International plc plans to raise up to $12.1 billion in a London and Hong Kong IPO, according to a term sheet seen by Reuters on Thursday, cashing in on…
April 7, 2011 Azure Minerals signs $13M copper exploration joint venture with Japanese state company Azure Minerals, a Mexico-focused precious and base metals explorer, said today it has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture with a Japanese state-owned corporation to explore the…
April 7, 2011 Buenaventura announces strike by contractor workers at the Uchucchacua mine Compania de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (“the Company” or “Buenaventura”) (NYSE: BVN; Lima Stock Exchange: BUE.LM), Peru’s largest publicly-traded precious metals mining company […]
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
