August 9, 2011 BHP buys Leighton iron ore business for US$727m Leighton Holdings has sold mining services provider HWE Mining to BHP Billiton. 9News reports that Leighton has signed a heads of agreement for the sale of HWE, which accounts for…
August 9, 2011 BlackRock to use gold, bond profits to buy beaten down stocks "Gold and bonds are doing really, really well and we're making profits on them and putting these into the asset classes that are getting cheaper and cheaper, which are definitely…
August 9, 2011 Republic Gold completes the sale of its share in Kangaroo Creek JV Republic Gold Limited (ASX: RAU) has now completed the sale of its share in the Kangaroo Creek Joint Venture in Queensland.
August 9, 2011 Australian workforce ‘too soft’, says mining company CEO A tough-talking mining company CEO is warning that Australia suffers from "rich country's disease" and is in danger of becoming a welfare state unless workers discover a "hunger for excellence."…
August 9, 2011 Stock market carnage spreads to Australia Australian stocks had plunged by more than four per cent at noon, following falls of over five per cent on Wall Street overnight, as carnage on overseas markets spread to…
August 8, 2011 Gold hits record high; stock markets and oil companies tumble After the S&P downgrade announced Friday evening, North American markets opened Monday and tumbled. The Australian stock market, measured by the S&P/ASX 200, finished the day down 2.91%, while the…
August 8, 2011 Unusual tactics in mining bid The potential joint bid by Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Development for Coal & Allied Industries (CAIL) is a curious beast because it proposes to involve a mechanism normally used to…
August 8, 2011 Rio in joint bid for coalminer Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi are being pressured to offer a special dividend to seal a $1.49 billion attempt to mop up the shares of 150-year-old Hunter Valley miner Coal &…
August 8, 2011 Harmony Gold Mining : Settlement of US Class Action Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony) is pleased to announce that it has reached a mutually acceptable settlement with the lead plaintiff in the class action filed against it in…
August 8, 2011 Platina Resources Limited (ASX:PGM) received full assay results from Owendale platinum project Platina Resources Limited (ASX:PGM) is pleased to confirm the receipt of all assay results from its recently completed 4,591 metre RC drilling program at the Owendale Platinum Project, New South…
Copper and aluminum prices drop as gains peter out before China break Exchange inventories have been rising in China and the wider Asian market in the run-up to the holiday. February 10, 2026 | 01:42 pm
