Africa Weekly: Hwange Hit By Constraints, Zambia Rides The Crest Of A Wave, DRC To Restrict Tin Exports, While African Eagle Prioritises Exploration In Tanzania

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

Now It’s Starting To Hurt

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

Solid Energy Has Coal In Abundance Down In New Zealand, And A Growing Renewables Portfolio Too

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

That Was The Week That Was … In Canada

Minews. Now over to our Canadian Correspondent to see how the Canadian Markets performed this past week.

Capstone Mining And Sherwood Copper Merge To Fill The Mid-Tier Producer Void

In the mining game “bigger is almost always better”, and this fact has not been lost on Canadian-listed Capstone Mining as it looks to tie the knot with fellow copper producer Sherwood Copper. The proposed nuptials would create a

Minera Andes Poised For Expansion Off A Very Solid Base

Take a look at the share price chart of Minera Andes and you will see a hockey stick shape at the end. In other words there was some news in August September-time good enough to move the price upward even in these dire times. A

Is An Inscrutable Chinaman Playing High Stakes Poker With AXMIN And The Government Of The Central African Republic?

Frustrating is not a word strong enough to express feelings at Canadian-listed AXMIN after an announcement was issued on local radio in the Central African Republic (CAR) that a decree had been issued which appeared to amend

Africa Weekly: DRC Extends Mines Contracts Review, South African Politics In Chaos, And Gem Pulls A Big Stone Out of Letseng

It’s rare to have both of Africa’s number one and number two gold producing nations hogging the limelight at the same time. As last week opened, it was a tale of conflicting fortunes for both South Africa and Ghana, the

Small Cap Miners Down, Banks Down And Out: How Much Worse Can It Get?

Another week and a few more banks have collapsed or are about to. Bradford and Bingley has now joined Washington Mutual on the growing list of casualties. Gold has moved up a little, but in the face of this financial firestorm

That Was The Week That Was … In Canada

Minews. Now over to our Canadian Correspondent who appears to have survived another tumultuous trading week on the Canadian Markets.

CC. It is just plain ugly out there on the equity markets, as the latest US financial

Acero-Martin’s Pinaya Project In Peru Will Be A Lot Bigger By Christmas

Stewart Jackson became president and chief executive of Canadian-listed Acero-Martin Exploration in April when the company was in a slight state of flux. Back then Don Currie was only acting as interim president, following the

Lara Exploration Turns Its Back On London, But As The Operating Arm For Lundin In Brazil, It Can Probably Afford To

Miles Thompson, chief executive of Lara Exploration, has turned his back on London. After numerous trips and presentations he has had so little interest in his stock he has no plans to come back anytime soon. Fortunately for him

Cameco, Plus A Convertible Debenture, Gives Aldershot Resources Room For Manouevre

Timing is everything in the exploration business, and this fact has certainly not been lost on Jeremy Caddy and his team at uranium explorer Aldershot Resources. Over the last two years shares in junior uranium explorers have

Good Feasibility Study Results For Barytex: Next Step, DRC Contract Negotiations

As Alf Hills, chief executive of Canadian-listed International Barytex Resources points out, “At least if your share price jerks upwards in acknowledgement of a piece of positive information you know investors are keeping an eye

The USA’s Budget Defecit Is Now Close To That Of Italy, But Luckily The USA Isn’t The Force In Metals It Once Was

The bull case for investing in gold has always been emotional, rather than being founded in adamsmithian supply and demand. Proponents argued that at some point the house of cards that represented the US financial markets would

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South Africa Gold Recovery Operations BEE Compliant

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Successful Placing of Shares

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Relationship agreement update regarding major shareholder

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High-grade Massive Sulphide Intersection Confirms Carnilya Hill Upside

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Ayanfuri Feasibility Update, Ghana, West Africa

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Scorpio Continues to Increase Lead-Zinc Concentrate Production at Nuestra Senora Project, Mexico

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High grade results from initial infill drilling of thick tungsten zone at Barruecopardo

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Update on Proposed Return of Capital Structure

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Pardoo Receives Environmental Approval

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Trading Halt

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Implementation of Gold Price Hedging Program

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A$100 Million Return of Capital and Unfranked Dividend

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Belvedere dispatches first concentrate shipment to Jinchuan

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Secures new Debt Facility and insurer Fire Indemnity

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Freegold Core Drilling Extends Depth of Bulk Tonnage Mineralization at Golden Summit