The future of carbon in the mining industry
While many in the mining industry still have serious doubts about climate change and man’s part in it, it isn’t s…
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Forecasters see most commodities rebounding in 2010
One of the most anticipated, and well-attended, sessions in this year’s PDAC convention in Toronto was headlined Co…
Yemen Looks For Share Of Mining Spotlight
Exploration companies looking for the next big find have seldom thought to look in the Middle Eastern country of Yemen.
Yemen seeks to gain its share of the mining spotlight
Exploration companies looking for the next big find have seldom thought to look in the Middle Eastern country of Ye…
Peregrine Picks Up Land Surrounding Chidliak
Peregrine Diamonds (PGD-T, PGDIF-O) is more than doubling its prospecting rights on Baffin Island, Canada’s newest diamond district.
Chinalco Pumps US$19.5B Into Rio Tinto
China’s largest aluminum producer will invest US$19.5 billion in Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) through joint ventures and convertible debt in a deal that will help the Anglo-Australian mining giant pay dow…
Chinalco Deal Rankles Rio Tinto Shareholders
The sixth trading week of 2009 saw a blockbuster deal struck between Rio Tinto and Aluminum Corp. of China (Chinalco), which has the Chinese state-owned major pumping a much larger than anticipated US…
Peregrine Diamonds buys land surrounding Chidliak
Peregrine Diamonds (PGD-T) is more than doubling its prospecting rights on Baffin Island, Canada’s newest diamond d…
UPDATE: As profits pinched BHP sees opportunities
Vancouver – Despite a mixed bag of financial results in its half-year ending Dec. 31., BHP Billiton’s (BHP-N, BLT-L…
BHP Billiton profits pinched
Vancouver – BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-L, BHP-A) reports a mixed bag of results in its half-year ending Dec. 31.
BHP Moves To Stanch The Bleeding
VANCOUVER–The world’s biggest mining company has joined the lengthy list of majors to close operations and trim payrolls in the face of sagging metal prices. BHP Billiton( BHP-N, BLT-L, BHP-A) is sus…
New CEO Not Looking To Transform Barrick
Despite his relative youth, Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N)new president and CEO, Aaron Regent, has taken some of Canada’s largest companies through difficult times.