Mining companies looking to do business in an African country need to be aware of the complexities they will likely face – from securing debt financing, to political risks in complying with local anti-bribery laws.
The Gullewa project in Western Australia has attracted interest of late for its high-grade gold, silver and copper mineralization and for the wheeling and dealing being done around it.
As strong demand from China spurs development of Australia’s vast mineral resources amid record-high commodity prices, a new swath of mining executives have come to dominate Australia’s mega-rich. Australia now has 20 billionaires, says…
Macarthur Minerals (MMS-V) has issued the latest in a string of resource estimates from its Lake Giles iron ore project in Western Australia as it works towards a potential direct-shipping operation.
Vista Gold (VGZ-T, VGZ-X) is moving to bring its Mt. Todd gold project in Australia’s Northern Territories to feasibility and permitting.
The strategy at gold and antimony producer Mandalay Resources (MND-T) is to find assets that can generate enough cash to grow themselves, as well as fund the next acquisition. So far, that strategy appears to be working at the junior’s mine in…
Central Iron Ore’s (CIO-V) primary focus may be the magnetite and direct shipping ore it believes exists on its 652 sq. km of tenements in the Yilgarn iron ore province of Western Australia, but the junior is also busy exploring for gold and…
Analysts remain mixed over AuRico Gold’s (AUQ-N) $1.46-billion, all-share takeover bid for gold miner Northgate Minerals (NGX-T, NXG-X), with some believing the 60% price AuRico agreed to pay is too rich for Northgate and its prized…
Prosperity Goldfields (PPG-V) has drilled 158 metres of 1.7 grams gold per tonne at its main Kiyuk gold project in southern Nunavut, including a higher-grade section of 31 metres grading 4.9 grams gold. The results are from the company’s…
“There is a huge amount of uncertainty in the financial markets right now,” Lawrence Roulston, a geologist and editor of the newsletter Resource Opportunities, told an audience at a mid-September Cambridge House conference in Toronto. “There is…
Maya Gold & Silver (MYA-V) has its eyes on another past-producing precious-metal mine in Morocco – this time, the Zgounder silver mine in central Morocco’s Anti-Atlas mountains.
In a presentation at this year’s Denver Gold Forum, Minefinders president and CEO Mark Bailey summed up the spirit of this year’s event – a place where the lobbying and meetings continue non-stop over three days from 7 a.m. over a continental…
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