March 4, 2011 Australia hoped to limit Chinese resources investments – Wikileaks According to U.S. embassy cables released on Wikileaks, Australia’s changes to foreign investment rules in 2009 were aimed at limiting Chinese investments […]
March 3, 2011 Argonaut Resources announces copper and silver mineralisation results Argonaut Resources NL (ASX: ARE) announced on Friday results from pre-collar assays from the Alford project (EL3969) on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula. Highlights from the intercepts were ALDDH10: 78m at 0.62% Cu from…
March 2, 2011 High grade gold discovery at King Brown – Southern Cross Southern Cross Goldfields says it has picked up high-grade, near-surface gold mineralisation at its King Brown prospect in W. Australia's Yilgarn goldfield
March 1, 2011 Australian iron ore, coal and gold exports to rise further in 2011 The Australian Government's statistics bureau (ABARE) is looking for further growth in iron ore, coal and gold exports in the current year as the commodities boom continues. PERTH (The West…
March 1, 2011 AMIRA’s new porphyry copper-gold project What AMIRA describes as “one of exploration’s most important geological projects, P765A (Geochemical and Geological Halos in Green Rocks and Lithocaps), was completed as a resounding success in December 2010,…
February 28, 2011 Australia still world’s no. 2 gold producer Australia produced 266 tonnes of gold in 2010, up 17% on 2009 but not enough to secure it first place as China's output grew to 341 tonnes in the same…
February 27, 2011 Equinox Minerals to launch hostile bid for Lundin Mining Equinox Minerals Ltd. will make a hostile bid for Lundin Mining prior to the markets opening Monday morning, Vancouver-based Lundin announced in a news release on Sunday. "Lundin is not…
February 27, 2011 Making use of methane: Methane recovery technology by Australia-based Industrea is getting a lot of attention in China In October 2010 the Chinese government shut down 1,611 illegal coal mines in an effort to improve an industry whose working conditions have been described as harsh, dangerous, and often…
February 27, 2011 Australian gold output up 17% in 2010 Production of gold Down Under was at its highest levels since 2003 as miners cashed in on record prices, the Daily Telegraph was reporting on Sunday: Gold output from domestic…
February 26, 2011 Fortescue discovers a billion tonnes of iron ore in Western Australia Fortescue Metals Group has discovered more than one billion tonnes of iron ore in Western Australia's Pilbara and aims to develop it rapidly. Sydney Morning Herald reports: The new project,…
Op-Ed: America can’t defend itself with Chinese minerals US is building new critical-mineral processing facilities from Texas to Tennessee, but without new sources of raw material, those plants will sit idle. January 23, 2026 | 12:56 pm
