Day Two At Mines And Money: The Crowds Leave Early As Patience Wears A Little Thin, But Deals Did Get Done, And Some People Left Smiling

By late afternoon on the second day of the Mines and Money conference the crowds had worn a little thin. Paradoxically many of the conference’s more pessimistic delegates stuck around till the end, just so they could watch the

Broken Down Washing Machine Wipes $8 Million Off The Value Of Adamus Resources

In Chicago, the board of trade has its VIX index to measure volatility - or fear - in the market. In Australia, they’ve invented the “washing machine index” to measure stock market instability. Well, no, actually they haven’t.

Day One At Mines And Money: Not Too Much Money In Evidence, But A Refreshing Lack Of Gloom Too

They came, they saw, and they had mixed opinions. Day one of this year’s Mines and Money conference met with a mixed reception from delegates. Some, having arrived in the expectation of a fairer hearing here than they were

TTM Resources Buys Back Shares And Thereby Declares Long-Term Confidence In The Chu Moly Project

It takes a brave man to fly in the face of all the whimpering and pessimism that’s doing the rounds in the junior mining sector. But one way of doing it is to spend up to C$3.5 million on buying back your own company’s shares on

Landore Resources Turns Its Attention From Nickel To Iron Ore

Explorers with only one project to their name are always vulnerable to bad news about the one or two commodities that the specific deposit contains. When the market turns sour it doesn’t matter how good the drill results are, all

Lappland Goldminers Finds Its Own Way Round The Funding Drought To Bring New Mines Into Production

In the midst of all this gloom there are some bright spots to be found. One such is Lappland Goldminers, a company listed in Norway but based in the northernmost provinces of Sweden and Finland, whence Father Christmas travels

European Nickel Keeps Its Options Open On Projects, And On Financing

Last week Rusina Mining broke a fairly lengthy silence by releasing an announcement on progress at its Acoje nickel project in the Philippines. Rusina, to be fair, has had plenty of reason to keep quiet, given that the

Cutbacks And Contango: There Could Be Money To Be Made Being A Contrarian Investor Right Now

Somebody somewhere will like as not be keeping a detailed record of all the production cutbacks that have been announced. In fact there will probably be lots of analysts tracking that data. But whether all the announcements will

Commodity Watch Radio: Sacre Coeur Minerals with Irwin Olian

This week Dominc Frisby talks to Irwin Olian of Sacre Coeur Minerals (CA:SCM). Irwin discusses his company, its prospects, and also takes a wider look at the economic outlook.

Rivington Street Holdings to acquire Oilbarrel.com

It was announced on December 1st that Rivington Street Holdings (RSH) is buying Oilbarrel.com. RSH is a media group chaired by Malcolm Burne, the fund manager and director of a number of resources companies in Canada, Australia

That Was The Week That Was … In London

The week saw a massive, and positive, change in London’s enthusiasm for the mining sector, at least at the eyes of the major investing institutions, which contributed to an overall rise of nearly 22 per cent in the UK-quoted

That Was The Week That Was … In Australia

Minews. Good morning Australia. It looks like your market staged a strong recovery over the past week.

Oz. It does, though it depends on where you started counting. If restricted to last week only, then it was the boom returned

That Was The Week That Was … In Canada

Minews. Now over to our Canadian Correspondent for a look at how the Canadian markets performed over the past week.

CC. Overall, it was a not bad finish to a terrible month. This November saw Canada’s major bourse drop some 10

The Outcome Of The Proposed Bid By BHP Billiton For Rio Tinto Had An Air Of Inevitability About It

So the BHP Billiton offer to acquire Rio Tinto has at last been aborted, but not before costing BHP Billiton the sum of US$450 million. It would be a fair guess to say that Rio Tinto had to spend a slightly smaller sum, say

Orsu Metals May Be Down, But It Is Certainly Not Out

Back in June, Lero Gold acquired European Minerals through a reverse deal. This was regarded by the experts as having saved European Minerals, as it had encountered problem after problem bringing its Varvarinskoye gold-copper

Mediterranean Resources Ltd

Letter Of Intent Signed To Joint Venture Turkish Properties

Orsu Metals Corporation

Orsu Metals Corporation Announces Completion of Joint Venture Agreement With Gold Fields

Gemfields Resources Plc

Response to Amari Resources announcement on T1

West Wits Mining Limited

Shallow gold mineralisation confirmed at Marquise Target

KimCor Diamonds Plc

Disposal of Operations

Tanzanite One Ltd

Director/PDMR Shareholding

PATAGONIA GOLD PLC

DRILLING UPDATE CAP-OESTE AND LA MANCHURIA-GOLD-SILVER PROJECTS

Kingsgate Consolidated Limited

Mine Continues to be Unaffected by Thai Political Changes

WEST WITS MINING LIMITED

Shallow gold mineralisation confirmed at Marquise Target

AXMIN Inc.

AXMIN Announces Board Appointment

Territory Resources Limited

Resignation of Directors

StrataGold Corporation

StrataGold Announces 2008 Diamond Drill Results, Eagle Zone, Yukon

CROWFLIGHT MINERALS INC.

Crowflight to Commence Trading on Toronto Stock Exchange

Forum Uranium Corp.

Forum Signs MOU with Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated for Exploration of Inuit Owned Land Nearby Areva's Kiggavik Uranium Deposit, Nunavut

Selkirk Metals Corp

0.23% Copper Over 328 Meters From Drill Hole Cf-08-51 Catface Project, British Columbia

Silver Standard Resources

Silver Standard Resources Inc.: San Luis Gold Resources Increase by 31%

Orko Silver Corp

Orko Silver Drills 3.99 metres of 1 Kilogram per ton Silver Equivalent

CanAlaska Uranium Ltd

CanAlaska to Undertake Uranium Exploration with Chinese Mining Partner

Volta Resources Inc.

Volta Resources Announces Additional Drilling Results From Its Gaoua Copper-Gold Project In Burkina Faso

Northland Resources Inc

Exploitation (Mining) Concession Granted for Tapuli Iron Ore Project