December 28, 2011

Stornoway Announces Filing of the Renard Environmental and Social Impact Assessment

Stornoway Diamond Corporation (TSX:SWY.TO - News) is pleased to announce the completion and filing of an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Renard Diamond Project located in North…

December 28, 2011

Weapons-grade uranium shipments quietly heading south

Weapons-grade uranium that for years has been transported north into Canada from the United States is now being quietly returned over the […]

December 28, 2011

Homeland Uranium Inc. to Acquire Carina Energy Inc. and Approves $275,000 Financing

Homeland Uranium Inc. ("Homeland") or (the "Company") is pleased to announce the signing of a definitive business combination agreement (the "Agreement") to acquire all issued and outstanding common shares of…

December 28, 2011

Protests and deaths in Indonesia force Australian gold exploration company to halt activities

Arc Exploration Limited (ARX), an Australian gold mining exploration company with presence in Indonesia, has halted activities at a project in Bima, after a violent protest at the nearby port…

December 28, 2011

Solar breakthrough: cheap quantum dot solar paint

Researchers have reduced the preparation time of quantum dot solar cells to less than an hour by changing the form to a one-coat quantum dot solar paint.

December 28, 2011

London gold and silver markets lower after Christmas shutdown

December 28, 2011

Zimbabwe considering a ban on raw platinum exports

December 28, 2011

London copper slips, breaking four days of gains

Prices of copper on the LME fell on Wednesday after poor housing data in the US raised concerns that demand for the metal could wane

December 28, 2011

Areva in talks to sell Eramet nickel mining stake

French nuclear giant Areva says it is in talks to sell its 26% stake in major nickel miner, Eramet (formerly Soc. Le Nickel) with major operations in New Caledoinia.

December 28, 2011

Freeport’s Grasberg copper-gold ops contractor under pressure

Indonesian contractor KPI under pressure to settle with Unions to bring the strike at the massive Grasberg copper-gold mine to an end.