July 14, 2012 Coal train hits truck in South Africa, 24 dead A coal train ploughed into a farm truck at a level crossing in South Africa on Friday, cutting it in half and killing 24 workers on their way to pick…
July 14, 2012 Summer doldrums With gold, silver, and their miners’ stocks drifting listlessly near correction lows, the sentiment in precious-metals land is even more pessimistic than usual.
July 13, 2012 La Mancha reaches definitive agreement to be acquired by Weather II at a price of $3.50 per share La Mancha Resources announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Weather Investments II to purchase all outstanding common shares of La Mancha by way of a take-over…
July 13, 2012 Ousted Vale CEO back with a bang Brazilian billionaire André Esteves has teamed up with Roger Agnelli, kicked out of iron ore giant Vale by government shareholders last year, to create their own mining company with an…
July 13, 2012 South Africa’s top mining execs push for higher safety standards South Africa’s Chamber of Mines said Friday it will set up a special CEO “elimination of fatalities team” in an effort to bring down the number of deaths at the…
July 13, 2012 Nobody can stop South Africa’s gold output collapse South Africa's gold output continues to fall, dropping a further 2.9% in May. The last time the country's mines produced this little, the nation was still ruled by the Queen…
July 12, 2012 Second day of heavy losses has Semafo investors reeling The Montreal-based company, down 21% following a dive of 17% on Wednesday, were deemed by investors to have overpromised and underdelivered on its exploration results.
July 12, 2012 UPDATED-Seven killed after plane chartered by Kinross Gold crashes in Mauritania Seven people were killed Thursday when a military plane chartered by Canada's Kinross Gold Corp. crashed during takeoff in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, an army source told AFP.
July 12, 2012 Roxgold Inc. issues statement on dissident action Just three days prior to the general meeting of shareholders of Roxgold and only one day before the deadline for submitting proxies, a dissident shareholder, announced that he intends to…
July 11, 2012 Ethiopian Potash Corp. announces agreement to exercise G & B option early and appoints financial advisor The company plans to exercise its option to acquire G & B Central African Resources and appoints a new financial advisor.
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