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Gross Opportunism Will Rule The Day, As Miners Start To Run Out Of Cash

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

Now It’s Starting To Hurt

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

That Was The Week That Was…In London

That Was The Week That Was … In Australia

That Was The Week That Was … In Canada

Churchill Mining Joins The Billion Tonne Club On East Kutai In Indonesia

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

Minera Andes Poised For Expansion Off A Very Solid Base

Toledo Mining Is Well Positioned To Ride Out The Storms In The Market, Even With Nickel At Under $16,000 Per Tonne

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

Goldplat Makes Recovery A Profitable Business, As It Looks Ahead To Becoming A Fully-Fledged Gold Miner

Times May Be Tough, But The Tough Team At Focus Minerals Are Steaming Ahead

RAB Capital Secures A Three Year Lifeline, But Clawing Back Its Reputation May Take A Lot Longer Than That

Highland Gold Swims Against The Tide, As Usual: This Time It’s Good News As Everyone Else Runs For Cover

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

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

Cape Lambert Could Make Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars From Marampa, Providing African Minerals Retains The Title

That Was The Week That Was … In London

That Was The Week That Was … In Australia

That Was The Week That Was … In Canada

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

Kiwara Could Be Sitting On Top Of The Next Voisey's Bay

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

Aussie Billionaire Ken Talbot Leads The Way, As Major Investors Start To Indulge In A Bit Of Bottom-Fishing

BHP and Rio Tinto May Have to Share Australian Ore Railroads

IMX Resources Is On The Right Track With Its Plans To Ship Magnetite To China

ZincOx Shaken But Not Stirred By Tough Market Conditions

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

Interesting Times For Petra Diamonds

Chasing The African Minerals Dragon: Value Destruction All Round

Van Dieman Mans The Pumps At Scotia, Hoping For Full Production In January 2009

How Do You Get Exposure To Coal And Renewables At The Same Time? For The Answer Look To UK Coal

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

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

Cast Prejudice Out Of The Window And Take A Close Look At Norseman Gold

The Money Reform Party 18th September 2008

Africa Weekly: More DRC Controversy, Zambia’s Copper Output Increases, First Diamonds From Stellar

Altan Rio Could Be Onto Something Big At One End Of The Carlin Trend, And Might Hit The Big Time In Mongolia Too

That Was The Week That Was ... In London

That Was The Week That Was … In Australia

That Was The Week That Was … In Canada

Andrew Bell’s Empire Remains Intact, As Red Rock Consolidates In The Yilgarn, And Regency Drills Up Nickel In PNG

Interesting Goings-On At Zambian Consolidated Copper Mines

The Realpolitic Of Rare Earths, Supply Constrained "Green" Elements

Kagara Has $300 Million Worth Of Mud Propping Up The Economics At Admiral Bay

Mwana Africa And RioZim Optimistic After Zimbabwe Power Sharing Deal, But Uncertainty Continues

54th Minesite Forum - Webcasts now available

RIP The Palito Mine: On The Critical List, One Not-So-Careful Owner, Serabi Mining

The Impending Election Could Put Carpathian Gold Into The Cat-Bird Seat In Romania

Another Piece Of The Puzzle Falls Into Place For Northland Resources On Its Iron Ore Development Projects In Scandinavia

G4G Resources Looks To The Future With A Position In Iron Ore And Alternative Fuels

Beowulf Delivers Some Hard Numbers, And A Decent Presentation At The Minesite Forum Too

Minera IRL Beats Production Targets By Some Margin, And Its Shares Are Holding Up Well Too

No Place For Sentiment In Denver: Instead, A New Paradigm

The Gemfields Bid For Tanzanite One Makes Sense, Providing You Didn’t Buy Tanzanite One Shares Between 2005 And Summer 2008

The Pressure Is On Small Miners As Metals Prices Drift, But Majors May Yet Take Up The Slack

Kalahari Minerals Escapes The Frying Pan, As Rossing South Tempts In Rio Tinto

The Un-Wizard Called OZ, And The Resurrection Of Zinc

That Was The Week That Was … In London

That Was The Week That Was ... In Australia

That Was The Week That Was … In Canada

Africa Weekly: Hope In Zimbabwe, License Review For Guinea, Petra Buys Williamson, And Gemfields Moves On Tanzanite One

The Numbers That Lied: Zinc Has Flummoxed The Market Professionals, And Everyone Else, As Perilya Knows To Its Cost

Stratex’s Share Price Weakness Obscures A Fundamentally Strong Position In Turkey

EMED Mining Is Confident That Permits For Rio Tinto Will Be Close To Completion By The End Of September

Moydow’s Kimberlite Count In Angola Notches Up To Four, And There May Be More To Come

VANE Minerals Rides Back Into Town With Uranium One As Its New Partner

Independence Group Has A Couple Of Winners At the Long Nickel Mine and the Tropicana Gold Discovery

Caledonia Struggles On At Blanket, But New Money Is Rightly Earmarked For Nama In Zambia

Cluff Gold Moves Towards 100,000 Ounces Of Production, And The Sleeping Giant At Baomahun Is Beginning To Stir

Sparton Resources Makes A Shrewd Move In Looking To Hong Kong To Finance Its Uranium And Germanium Projects In China

Magma’s Thunder Bay North Platinum Property Could Potentially Be The Next Norilsk

Horizonte Comes On Leaps And Bounds At The Lontra Nickel Deposit In Brazil

Glencar Works Up Towards A Million Ounces On The Magnetic Destruction Zones At Komana East

A Toothless Market That Offers No Liquidity And Locks Its Directors Out - Just What Exactly Is The Point Of An Aim Listing?

Zimbabwe Will Trade Gold And Diamonds For Oil Direct From Equatorial Guinea

Russian Money Will Be Key To De-Leveraging The US Economy

Africa Weekly: Paladin Upgrades, Kalahari Merges, And Zambia Holds Its Nerve

That Was The Week That Was … In London

That Was The Week That Was ... In Australia

That Was The Week That Was … In Canada

Day Two, And The Africa Downunder Conference Crawls To A Close

India’s Economic Boom Rolls On, But There’s No Room For The Little Guy - Not In The Mining Sector, Anyway

Canadian Zinc Continues To Unravel The Green Tape Around The Prairie Creek Zinc Property

Wildhorse Energy Has Some Interesting Choices To Make On Its Uranium Assets In Wyoming And Hungary

Day One At The Africa Downunder Conference: A New Commodities Nexus Begins To Emerge

Riversdale’s Two Billion Dollar Market Cap Begins To Put It On The Coal Mining Map In Southern Africa

Capital Costs Are Key for Franconia Minerals As It Follows In The Footsteps Of PolyMet Mining Towards Production

New Dawn Mining Weathers The Storm In Zimbabwe But Late Payments From The Central Bank Don’t Make Things Easy

Cambridge Minerals Confirms That It Is On Target For Initial Gold Production By The Year End

Chinese Demand For Metals Is Bouncing Around A Bit, But The Long-Term Outlook Remains Robust

The MDC Goes Into Battle In Parliament On The Indigenization Law, As Mining Companies In Zimbabwe Hold Their Breath

When The Money Tide Rises Again, Medusa Mining Will Surely Float

Investors Who Haven’t Done The Numbers On Giralia Resources’ Iron Ore Properties Might Be Missing A Trick

Decoupling: Will It Be The US That Drives Growth, And Metals Prices, After All?

Less Green And Red Tape In Ghana Means Azumah Resources Can Work Its Kunche Gold Project Up Quick Smart

Gunson Benefits From Delayed Approvals As The Zircon Price Soars

On The Ground in Botswana: Discovery Metals Advances Its Substantial Boseto Copper Project