‘Friedland envy’ haunts Diggers & Dealers
KALGOORLIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA — Over the past five years, master entrepreneur Robert Friedland has created a guessing game at Australia’s biggest mining conference, the Diggers & Dealers Mining F…
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Vedanta investing US$8.8B in base metal expansion
Having received the go-ahead from India’s Supreme Court, Vedanta Resources (VED-L), an India-focused resource giant, is proceeding with a bauxite project in Lanjigarh, in the state of Orissa. An alumi…
Mongolian hurdles don’t faze Ivanhoe (August 21, 2008)
Vancouver – In spite of everything, it seems Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) is committed to Mongolia.The major an…
Holding companies make $259-million offer for QGX
Coal and gold explorer QGX (QGX-T), one of the first western companies to get an exploration permit in Mongolia, ha…
Red Hill to sample Ulaan Ovoo coal
Red Hill Energy (RH-V) is combining a bulk sample program with an open pit expansion program at its Ulaan Ovoo coal…
Crandall Canyon disaster may lead to huge settlement
VANCOUVER–Among other defendants, American coal giant Murray Energy wants to settle out of court a complaint filed against it by families of victims who died or were injured in the Crandall Canyon mi…
Miners sidestep Olympic hurdles
Inadequate coal supplies for Chinese power plants means industrial customers are facing power rationing in order to ensure enough electricity for the Olympic Games.
Vedanta Resources in US$8.8 billion India expansion
Having received the go-ahead from India’s supreme court, Vedanta Resources (VED-L), an India-focused resource giant…
Grande Cache Coal falls on financial results
Grande Cache Coal (GCE-T) failed to meet its own production targets for the last quarter and as a result had to wat…
“Friedland envy” haunts Diggers & Dealers
Perth, Western Australia — Over the past five years, master entrepreneur Robert Friedland has created a guessing g…
SouthGobi Energy’s coal resource soars
Shares of SouthGobi Energy Resources (SGQ-V, SGQRF-O) vaulted $1.90 apiece on news that the company’s total measured and indicated surface resource of coal in southern Mongolia has grown by 73% to 258…
Editorial: Teck, Goldcorp, find there’s no place like home
With Canadian miners running into all sorts of problems overseas dealing with greedy and at times openly hostile governments, assets back home in the Great White North are looking better each year, ev…