Minesite News headlines May 16, 2008
Minews Story: May 15, 2008
How do you tell the world that you’re on the verge of opening up a new uranium district when you’re hidebound by reporting restrictions, and one of your managing directors actually sits on the Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC)?
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Minews Story: May 15, 2008
If anyone ever needed a demonstration that London likes its blue sky exploration backed by cash flow, the news that BHPBilliton has pulled the plug on its involvement in Petra Diamonds’ huge Alto Cuilo diamond prospect in Angola
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Minews Story: May 15, 2008
When Canadian-listed Nevsun decided in September last year that the end of the road had come for its Tabakoto producing gold mine in Mali as well as for its neighbouring Segala property, it gave as the main reason that Tabakoto
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Minews Story: May 15, 2008
Patience is invaluable in the mining business, and Al Shefsky of Pele Mountain Resources has got it in spades. A brief trip back into history shows that his company was once involved in gold, diamonds, and nickel, but nothing
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Minews Story: May 15, 2008
“Primarily our aim is to be producing iron products”, says Peter Arendt, chief executive of G4G Resources, a Canadian junior that’s just emerging with a new identity after a series of corporate transactions towards the end of
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Features: May 14, 2008
In 2007 the silver price surged to highs not seen since the Hunt brothers from Texas tried to corner the market back in 1981. From a low of US$4.028 per ounce in November 2001, silver has been on a steady upward trend. It's
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Minews Story: May 14, 2008
The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO), the country's largest producer and seller of fertilizes, has entered into a long-term off-take and supply agreement with Australia’s Legend International Holdings. The
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Minews Story: May 14, 2008
Two problems hit Norseman Gold over the last twelve months, according to Barry Cahill, the company’s chief executive. The first was that the company’s Harlequin mine suffered dwindling output because it was run by a poor manager.
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Minews Story: May 14, 2008
It is an axiom of mining that “the old timers didn’t get all the gold”. In practice, most of them made a pretty good job of it, and it’s usually quite hard to find substantial new deposits in old mining camps. That, though, isn’t
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Features: May 14, 2008
A report from financial services giant Ernst & Young released on 12th May, states that most of the world’s large mining companies expect to grow through acquisition over the next two years. Ernst & Young’s review of 2007 showed
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Minews Story: May 13, 2008
It is no easy task to keep one’s share price on the move when all the news is about rising gold resources and production is not expected until 2010 at the earliest. Mark Calderwood, managing director of Australian-listed Perseus
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Commodities: May 13, 2008
After a long period of decline it now looks as if the dollar may have bottomed out, though few observers actually seem to be bullish on the US currency. Having got as low as $US1.60 to the euro, the dollar is now worth US$1.54,
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Minews Story: May 13, 2008
Australian-listed Adamus Resources is well on its way to production at its South Ashanti Gold Project in Ghana, but investors don’t seem to have appreciated that fact as yet. Maybe that is because at one time the company seemed
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Minews Story: May 13, 2008
What’s an aspiring Africa-focussed uranium exploration company to do if it can’t pick up ground in Namibia, the continent’s second most prolific uranium country, due to excessive staking and a new moratorium on pegging ground
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Minews Story: May 12, 2008
Not many Minesite readers get a first hand opportunity to see the latest remarkable developments in the Australian iron ore industry for themselves. So Minesite’s Man in Oz has done it for you. Last Friday, as a guest of Atlas
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