August 22, 2011 SOS to WA mine sector WA's resources sector has been issued an SOS from the nation's steel and manufacturing industries to ramp up investment in Australian products to prevent thousands of more jobs going offshore.
August 22, 2011 India to consider banning chrome ore exports to China According to the CEO of Albanian Minerals, India and South Africa are mulling a ban on raw chrome exports to China in a bid to keep local ferrochrome producers competitive…
August 22, 2011 China to raise nickel pig iron output by up to 50pct in 2011 Tsingshan Holding Group said that China is expected to raise its nickel pig iron output by between 25% and 50% to 250,000 to 300,000 tonnes in 2011 from 200,000 tonnes…
August 22, 2011 Gold and Silver to Generate up to 50% of Total Annual Revenues at Ivanhoe Mines’ Oyu Tolgoi Project Ivanhoe Mines (TSE:IVN,NYSE:IVN,NASDAW:IVN) announced an update to the production potential of its Oyu Tolgoi project.
August 22, 2011 Xstrata’s huge thermal coal project being challenged in Australian court over impacts to Great Barrier Reef Lawyers for Swiss mining giant Xstrata are in court today defending a massive coal project slated for Queensland. The AU$6 billion Wandoan coal mine has come under fire by environmentalists…
August 22, 2011 Tawsho Mining Hits New Yr-High As Strikes Significant Gold in Newfoundland Tawsho Mining Inc. (TAW.V) is now surging 32%, hits a new year high of about 37 cents earlier, after announcing results from its summer 2011 drill campaignon its Whisker Valley…
August 22, 2011 Aquarius Platinum still in talks over Mimosa operation The platinum miner said Monday it was still in talks with the Zimbabwean capital over a key deadline after its indigenization plan was rejected last week.
August 22, 2011 Canada’s Silvercorp buying Chinese assets Canadian company Silvercorp Metals Inc. said Monday it is buying a controlling share in two Chinese mining companies for about $10.4 million, including debt. Silvercorp will hold a 90 percent…
August 22, 2011 Exciting times for gold bugs as the Eurocrats dither Gold prices push higher as once again the ineptitude of our political masters fails to deliver. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy had scheduled yet another problem…
August 22, 2011 Pretty little liars I'm calling our current economic malaise 'Financial Crisis: Part deux' because it is simply too ludicrous to take seriously. It's comedy. Farce. Monty Python meets Benny Hill. The system is…
Platinum miners favour payouts over projects even as prices surge Despite strong prices, mining executives are wary of launching new projects without evidence of sustained long-term price stability. February 11, 2026 | 10:30 am
