Minesite News headlines May 10, 2008
Minews Story: May 08, 2008
It’s all a bit reminiscent of Diamond Field Resources’ discovery of the giant Voisey Bay nickel deposit in Labrador back in the 1990s, when the original target was diamonds. This time round, tiny Canadian-listed Goldsource Mines
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Minews Story: May 08, 2008
Zambezia province, up in north eastern Mozambique, is true tantalum country. The artisans and small operators who work the ground there do quite nicely, and now some bigger companies are getting in on the act too. “This year we
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Minews Story: May 08, 2008
When we wrote about Canadian-listed Orko Silver towards the end of last year the suggestion was that the company was aiming to boost its resource estimate at its La Preciosa project in Mexico to 100 million ounces of silver, but
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Minews Story: May 08, 2008
According to George Bujtor, chief executive of Toledo Mining, there’s six million tonnes of nickel laterite ore sitting in ports in China. That may be one reason why the nickel price has come off last year’s highs to the point
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Minews Story: May 07, 2008
Not many mining companies move to London to save money. But that’s just what Tamaya Resources is doing as it juggles the challenges of developing a global spread of mining interests off a small financial base. Technically, Tamaya
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Minews Story: May 07, 2008
How many people do you know walking around town with a Thermo Scientific Radeye Pro Personal Radiation Detector in their pocket? Here at Minesite we can name at least one: Jim Kerr, managing director of Lithic Metals & Energy.
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Minews Story: May 07, 2008
Kalimantan Gold has just signed a contract to explore for coal in Indonesia. Given that the name of the company suggests it’s looking for gold and not coal, Minews wondered if the company might be changing its name. Chief
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Minews Story: May 07, 2008
Acid mine drainage is a sulphuric acid solution generated when exposed ore comes into contact with water and air. It’s long been a problem for mines and for mining companies, as it also contains heavy metals. This very unpleasant
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Minews Story: May 06, 2008
Kazakhstan-based ferrochrome and iron ore producer Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) is certainly putting down a marker with its US$300 million acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in Brazilian iron ore project company
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Minews Story: May 06, 2008
Having taken service in the rival Spanish crown, Ferdinand Magellan, who was Portuguese himself, actually spent a great deal of time avoiding Portuguese territory. Thus it was that on his great circumnavigation of the world in
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Minews Story: May 06, 2008
In this business one drill hole can change everything. For Belmore Resources, a company that has to date existed more on paper than in the physical world, hitting a high grade zinc-lead intersection on its Kilbricken property in
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Minews Story: May 06, 2008
Ralph Shearing of Soho Resources (CA:SOH) tells us about his latest drill results and the strategy of Soho as they move forward.
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Minews Story: May 06, 2008
A mere shortage of concrete has pushed back first production from Centamin’s giant Sukari gold mine in Egypt. The three month delay is nothing to worry about, according to the company’s house broker, Ambrian. “These small delays
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Commodities: May 05, 2008
When the market has priced in all the bad news it can, any bit of good news can have a surprisingly large impact. On Friday US statisticians told us that US payroll numbers had fallen by 20,000. Not good news you might think.
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Minews Story: May 04, 2008
The mining sector managed to have a mildly positive week, despite copper coming off the boil slightly and gold being forced into retreat by US dollar strength.
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Q1 2008 RESULTS CONFERENCE CALL & WEBCAST
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Commencement of Roaster at the Vatukoula Gold Mine in Fiji Further Open Pit Resource Identified
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Upgrade of Uranium Resources
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AGREEMENT SIGNED WITH MANTLE DIAMONDS TO EVALUATE KIMBERLITE TARGETS CLOSE TO LAHTOJOKI PIPE
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Interim Management Statement
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UME Purchases Its Own Shares
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