January 2, 2013

New Technical Support Manager for Powerscreen

Powerscreen, one of the world’s leading providers of mobile crushing and screening equipment, has appointed Hugh Brennan as our new Technical Support Manager.

January 2, 2013

BHP holds a whopping 1,425 permits in Peru

BHP obtained 144 exploration permits in the South American country in 2012

January 2, 2013

Metso strengthens plant optimization services by acquiring U.S. software company ExperTune Inc.

Metso has acquired U.S. software company ExperTune Inc.

January 2, 2013

K+S Potash Canada Selects Veolia’s HPD Evaporation and Crystallization Technology for New Potash Plant

K+S Potash Canada, a subsidiary of the K+S Group, has awarded Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies a multi-hundred million dollar contract to supply the evaporation and crystallization equipment constituting the…

January 2, 2013

Perseus Mining misses Ghana gold production forecast

Perseus Mining (ASX, TSX: PRU) said Wednesday gold production at its Edikan gold mine in Ghana will be less than the 58,500 ounces projected in late November for the December…

January 2, 2013

Canada’s New Gold Blackwater project open for public comment

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is requesting local people send in their opinions about the Blackwater project, New Gold Inc.’s proposed mine in British Columbia.

January 2, 2013

Egypt halts Centamin gold exports

Centamin was the only large producer in the country

January 2, 2013

Tanbreez letter to the editor (excerpt)

Reader disagrees with article on Greenland's rare earth market.

January 2, 2013

Mining shares lead rally ignited by US fiscal cliff deal

The FTSE 100 index rose 139 points to 6,037 points, the first time it has been above the 6,000 level in 17 months, with mining shares exceptionally high.

January 2, 2013

Have uranium miners hit rock bottom?

Almost two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, uranium miners are still struggling.