Minesite News headlines October 13, 2008
Minews Story: October 13, 2008
For junior uranium explorers, gone are the heady days of mid-2007 when the spot price of uranium hit almost US$140 per pound and lofty share prices were the norm. Today the once high flying sector is now on financial life
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Minews Story: October 13, 2008
Yet another discovery by Petra Diamonds, this time at its Cullinan mine hogged the limelight on the African mining scene as the week opened while the government of Burundu appetised nickel sector investors by announcing that the
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Minews Story: October 12, 2008
Minews. Now over to our Canadian Correspondent who appears to have survived another tumultuous trading week on the Canadian Markets.
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Features: October 10, 2008
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
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Minews Story: October 08, 2008
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
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Features: October 07, 2008
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
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Features: October 07, 2008
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
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Minews Story: October 06, 2008
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
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Minews Story: October 06, 2008
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
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Minews Story: October 06, 2008
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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Minews Story: October 05, 2008
Minews. Now over to our Canadian Correspondent to see how the Canadian Markets performed this past week.
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Minews Story: October 02, 2008
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
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Minews Story: October 02, 2008
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
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Minews Story: October 01, 2008
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
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Minews Story: September 29, 2008
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
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