African mining conference draws masses
Cape Town, South Africa — On strong commodity prices and a sustained bull market, the opening day of the 12th annual Mining Indaba conference attracted more than 4,000 delegates to hear about the ong…
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African Mining Conference draws masses
Cape Town, South Africa On strong commodity prices and a sustained bull market the 12th annual Mining Indaba conf…
UraMin seeks big-league status in African uranium
When gold prices rose sharply in the early years of this decade, companies came along whose purpose was to assemble projects that didn’t make the grade at low prices, but had potential to go to produc…
Swift death for Western Areas hedge book (January 25, 2007)
Gold Fields (GFI-N, GFI-L, GFI-J) has killed off the hedge book it inherited in its takeover of South Deeps gold pr…
TSX goes global with gold index (December 18, 2006)
To suit its beefed-up list that now includes non-Canadian gold companies, the Standard & Poor/Toronto Stock Exchang…
Gold Fields, Sino now allies
Already holding a significant stake in Australian gold producer Sino Gold (SGX-A), South African mining house Gold Fields (GFI-N, GOF-L, GOGOF-J) has taken a 6.5-million-share placement in exchange fo…
Expansions for Gold Fields’ Tarkwa mine
Gold Fields (GFI-N, GOF-L, GOGOF-J) has decided to nearly triple the throughput capacity of its carbon-in-leach pla…
Gold Fields, Sino Gold tighten up
Already holding a significant stake in Australian gold producer Sino Gold (SGX-A), South African mining house Gold …
Barrick’s profits up
Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) reported substantially higher third quarter profits of US$405 million (US$0.46 per shar…
Sargold still bullish on Sardinia
Sargold Resource (SRG-V) is increasing its stake on the Italian island of Sardinia by acquiring Gold Fields’ (GFI-N…
Volta Power Cuts to Hit Gold Mines
Low water levels in the Volta River system have led the Ghanaian power generation agency, the Volta River Authority, to begin a program of load management that includes some power cuts to users, inclu…
Iamgold bids for Cambior (September 25, 2006)
A friendly deal between Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-N, IGD-A) and Cambior (CBJ-T, CBJ-X) would see Iamgold take over the Montreal-based gold miner in a paper deal valued at $1.3 billion to form a gold company…