Rio Tinto plc

The Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index slipped 70.37 points to end the Nov. 6-12 report period at 6,329.27.The TSE’s gold index was up 5.39 points, partly on the back of a US$5.70-gain in the pric…

Six of seven heterolithic breccia outcrops on Band-Ore Resources’ (BAN-T) GQ property, near Wawa, Ont., have returned diamonds.The best results came from the Rainbow zone, where a 54-kg sample from a …

Vancouver — Junior St. Elias Mines (SLI-V) has launched a 1,500-metre drill program on the Gralheira-Jales gold property in northern Portugal.Situated in the Tras-O-Montes region, the project covers …

While gold prices ended the report period virtually unchanged at around US$317 per oz., gold bugs drew encouragement that most of the gold miners showed uncharacteristic strength and added to the prev…

Vancouver — Asarco, the U.S. subsidiary of Grupo Mexico, is considering closing its Mission copper mine is southern Arizona.The announcement, prompted by high production costs and low copper prices, …

Two of the smaller but richer companies in the gold business, Iamgold (IMG-T) and Repadre Capital (RPD-T), have announced plans to merge in an all-share transaction that would see Repadre shares trade…

After dropping from US$40 to US$30 in the previous week, the shares of cobalt refiner OM Group collapsed further during the report period, falling 71% on Oct. 29 to US$8.95 and closing at US$7.49 on t…

Shares in Cleveland-based cobalt refiner OM Group crashed to a three-and-a-half-year low during the report period following its mention in a UN Security Council report on illegal mining activity in th…

Partners Rio Tinto (RTP-N) and Trivalence Mining (TMI-V) have recovered more diamonds from the Aredor concession in Ghana.Rio, which operates the project, recently sank eight holes into a promising g…

More than a decade after diamonds were first found in Canada’s Far North, new discoveries of kimberlite continue to be reported in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.An autumn drilling program on t…