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We have all heard enough about how bad the financial situation is. There is no question that the markets are in a terrible mess. The U.S. credit crisis is serious, it is spreading, and it’s not going to get better over night. The
Full story...Mozambique is a great place to go on holiday. The beaches are long and sandy, the sea is warm, the snorkelling is stupendous, and the sun shines brightly enough, even in wintertime. What’s more, following two decades of civil war
Full story...When we last wrote about AIM listed Chromex Mining a year ago the company was going through a very frustrating time awaiting the outcome of a dispute with the South African Department of Mines & Energy over rights to the
Full story...Over the past couple of weeks here at Minesite we’ve had plenty to say about the legal comings and goings over the partially disputed Marampa iron ore project in Sierra Leone. The convoluted three way argument between African
Full story...What do you do if you’ve hijacked a ship containing 33 state-of-the-art Russian T-72 tanks? No, this is not a note-to-self from thriller-writer Jack Higgins, this is the question that faced a gang of Somali pirates who struck it
Full story...“The key question”, reads a recent broker report on Aricom, “one that is difficult to answer with certainty at this stage”, but that’s “driving the outlook for the company, is the level of capex inflation”. Aricom addressed that
Full story...Things appear to be falling apart for Central African Gold’s Zimbabwe gold operation, Falcon Gold, as output of the precious metal from stood at a mere 85 kgs for the period January to June this year. This pathetic figure is in
Full story...You’ve got to hand it to the management of Serabi Mining: they’re not hunkering down in bomb shelters while an irate City rains down heavy ordinance upon their heads. On the contrary, following the company’s disastrous news that
Full story...The sheer brutality of a bear market is writ large in the performance of Sunkar Resources which raised £36 million in June prior to listing on AIM. The price paid then was 120p per share: now the shares cost 24p. And nothing
Full story...Over dinner in an excellent Chinese restaurant in Kinshasa – the Chinese have brought more here than railways – discussion of the recent announcement of an imminent end to the government’s review of the DRC’s mining contracts
Full story...I am genuinely proud of the fact that when I was Chairman of the Association of Mining Analysts we held two gold seminars at which the much reviled Gold Anti Trust Action Committee (GATA) spoke. What they said about the gold
Full story...One way or another it looks likely that we’re going to be hearing the phrases “highly opportunistic” and “grossly undervalued” a fair amount over the next twelve months or so. There are hundreds of companies out there sitting on
Full story...On the global scene, platinum prices slithered down to a 33-month low amidst fears over plummeting demand from car manufacturers. The greenback also gained as it rose to a one-year high against the euro, yet gold traded steady on
Full story...Metal prices were pretty much ok until Friday of last week when there seems to have been a bit of reality check. A US$305 a tonne fall in the price of copper that day took it down to US$5,882. Considering it had been US$6,900 a
Full story...One of New Zealand's leading high-quality coal producers is on track to become one of the country's major producers of renewable energy when two major green energy projects come online next year. Solid Energy’s seven coal mines
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Uruguay Mineral Exploration Inc. Announces Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009
Uruguay Mineral Exploration Inc. Announces Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009
StrataGold Completes 2008 Exploration Program at Dublin Gulch, Yukon
Oro Silver Announces First Closing Financing & Provides Corporate Update
Starfield Reports Results for Second Quarter ended August 31, 2008 and Provides Update from Current Drilling Program
