December 11, 2012

Solvista Gold continues to expand its gold-copper discovery at Caramanta results include 160.2 meters at 1.79 g/t gold equivalent with 67.4 meters at 2.75 g/t gold equivalent

Results include 160.2 meters at 1.79 g/t gold equivalent with 67.4 meters at 2.75 g/t gold equivalent.

December 10, 2012

Zamin Ferrous to start exporting 18 million tons of iron in 2016

Mining company Zamin Ferrous is waiting on authorizations to initiate the extraction of iron in Valentines, Uruguay.

December 10, 2012

Resource nationalism is miners’ number one fear and major threat to global security — report

Resource nationalism is one of the main causes of the current commodity prices instability and it is threatening global security, warns London-based Chatham House in its latest report.

December 10, 2012

Gold bug spreads through Latin America

Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Paraguay have recently been adding to their bullion holdings. And this might be only the beginning.

December 10, 2012

Fresh hopes for Aussie miners: country to attract over 18 times the investment of South Africa

Australia’s mining industry will become the world’s number one again over the next two decades, attracting as much as 18 times the investment planned for South Africa, according to the…

December 10, 2012

Indico Resources Ltd.: initial drill results from phase 2 drilling campaign Ocana porphyry Cu-Mo-Au project

Significant gold grades accompany the copper, for example, OCA004 which intersected 264 metres of 0.36% copper and 0.15 g/t gold, including 39 metres of 0.69% copper and 0.20 g/t gold.

December 10, 2012

Ferrum Americas Mining intersects 94.4 m grading 52.1% Fe at Cerro Rojo iron ore project

The Company's Cerro Rojo iron ore project in Bolivia has returned the highest grading results to date.

December 10, 2012

Eagle Star Minerals receives more excellent pit results and expands lateral continuity of the high-grade zone at the Bomfim Hill, which remains open in all directions

The company announces excellent results from Pits 3 and 4 returning 15.42% P2O5 over 5 meters and 23% P2O5 over 1.5m average grade respectively.

December 7, 2012

Latin American Minerals commences deep target identification program at Paso Yobai gold project

The announcement comes with the initiation of of CSAMT geophysical surveys at the Paso Yobai Project in Paraguay, an early start to the 2013 exploration campaign to drill the project's…

December 6, 2012

Vale says Chinese ban on its giant ships should be lifted next year

400,000 dead-weight tonne vessels costing $100 million each have never offloaded in China.