May 16, 2012 General Electric to buy up mining specialists Industrea and Fairchild International General Electric (NYSE: GE) announced it is pursuing acquisitions of two underground mining equipment manufacturers in support of the global expansion of its mining business.
May 16, 2012 Silver use in medicine could boost the market: report For thousands of years, silver has been used at the table, on the battlefield and even in healthcare. Today, the uses of silver for its healing and preventative properties are…
May 16, 2012 Silver Bear provides operational update and announces first quarter 2012 results Canadian Silver Bear Resources (TSX:SBR) posted Wednesday an operational update and announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2012.
May 16, 2012 Pan American Silver 1Q net falls 46% due to Mexican acquisition Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX: PAAS, NASDAQ: PAA.T) first-quarter profit fell 46% as the costs of acquiring a Mexican gold and silver operation covered a revenue increase.
May 16, 2012 Repelling sharks? Rare earth elements can handle that Magnetically sensitive sharks don't like samarium, neodymium, and praseodymium, according to a report by BBC on a company that is experimenting with rare earth elements to protect swimmers from getting…
May 16, 2012 Latin American mining investment boom continues unabated Over the past decade, mining investment in Latin America has more than doubled, even after experiencing a sharp drop in 2009. According to a report by the Metals Economic Group,…
May 16, 2012 Twelve-year-old critic of Canada’s banking system goes viral The latest rant against Canada’s federal government’s borrowing practices has gone viral and not because it comes from a well-know economist, but because it is exposed by a well articulated…
May 16, 2012 African Barrick Gold to pay more royalties to Tanzania African Barrick Gold (LON:ABG) has decided to pay the Tanzanian government an extra 1% in royalties, in light of the current gold price environment.
May 16, 2012 Feminist group crashes mining meeting in Australia A group of bearded women belonging to the feminist group La Barbe, crashed last night's Melbourne Mining Club meeting to congratulate the mining industry for its exclusion of women and…
May 16, 2012 Mining Association of BC chooses announces Teck’s executive as 2012 mining person of the year The Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC), as part of its annual BC Mining Week celebrations, announced today that the 2012 recipient of the MABC Mining Person of the Year…
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
