Cardero Gets Advance Payment For Pampa De Pongo
VANCOUVER — Cardero Resource (CDU-T, CDY-X) is getting a US$2-million payment for its Pampa de Pongo iron ore project ahead of schedule from Chinese buyer Nanjinzhao. The total purchase price of the …
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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…
China Inc. steps up foreign acquisitions; bids for Oz Minerals
China’s state-owned companies are ratcheting up their acquisitions of struggling mining companies that have been hi…
Hecla Restructures Debt, Raises US$65.6M
Hecla Mining (HL-N) is juggling debt and issuing shares to help repay a loan it took to buy out its majority partner Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) at their co-owned Greens Creek silver mine, near Juneau in…
‘Porkulus’ To Stoke Inflation
The financial world during the fifth trading week of the year was dominated by the haggling in Washington, D. C., over the size and content of the federal government’s unprecedentedly large stimulus b…
Rio Tinto Sells More Assets To Pare US$37B Debt
Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) continues to hack away at its immense debt load with sales to Vale (RIO-N) of its undeveloped potash assets in Argentina and Canada and an iron ore mine in Brazil for US$1.6 b…
Rio Tinto enters strategic partnership with Chinalco
China’s largest aluminum producer will invest US$19.5 billion in Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) through joint ventures an…
Nanjinzhao makes advance Pampa payment to Cardero
Vancouver – Cardero Resources (CDU-T) is getting US$2 million of the US$200 million it sold its Pampa de Pongo ir…
Rio Tinto Woos Chinese
The week ended Jan. 31, the fourth trading week of 2009, was rife with speculation over Rio Tinto’s future, and just what the debt-crippled giant might hand over to its deep-pocketed 9% shareholder, s…
Hecla restructures debt; raises US$65.6 million in public offering
Hecla Mining (HL-n) is juggling debt and issuing shares to help repay a loan it took to buy out its majority partne…
Rio Tinto sells more assets, confirms talks with Chinalco
Rio Tinto (RTP-n, RIO-l) continues to hack away at its immense debt load with sales to Vale (RIO-n) of its undevelo…
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.