Hunting for nickel in Tanzania
Tanzania’s prospective Kabanga nickel belt was first discovered by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the 1970s.
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The spectacular failure of South Africa’s state-owned electricity supplier, Eskom, to provide power to the nation’s industrial sector was easily the most significant event in the global mining industr…
Wallbridge follows the chlorine pathway to PGEs
Wallbridge Mining (WM-T, WLBMF-O) decided to follow the path of chlorine in the Sudbury Igneous Complex, and in doing so, hit upon platinum group elements (PGE).
Rio Tinto options Global Copper’s Taca Taca (January 28, 2008)
Vancouver — Global Copper (GLQ-T, GOCPF-O) has landed Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) as an option partner on its Taca Taca copper-gold deposit in Salta province, northwestern Argentina.
Vale mulls run at Xstrata
Vancouver – Ambitious growth plans sees Brazilian mining giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO-N) evaluating a poss…
El Morro copper-gold project to cost US$2.5 billion
A feasibility study on the El Morro copper-gold project in Mexico put average annual production at 195,000 tonnes o…
Newmac hits high-grade moly at Crazy Fox
Vancouver — Partial assays from a drill hole on Newmac Resources’ (NER-V, NEWRF-O) Crazy Fox project, in south-central B.C., indicate that high-grade molybdenum mineralization extends to depth.
Newmac hits deep high-grade moly at Crazy Fox
Vancouver – Partial assays from a drill hole on Newmac Resources’ (NER-V, NEWRF-O) Crazy Fox project in south-centr…
Rio Tinto options Global Copper’s Taca Taca (January 04, 2008)
Vancouver – Global Copper (GLQ-T, GOCPF-O) has landed Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) as an option partner on its Taca Tac…
Knight intersects 2.72% nickel over 7.3 metres at West Raglan
Knight Resources (KNP-V) reported the final 11 holes from its 2007 drill program today from its West Raglan nickel …
Wallbridge finds mineralization in an unassuming place
In an original move for a junior Wallbridge Mining (WM-T) went looking for mineralization in chlorine and came up a…
Xstrata boosts Raglan resource (December 17, 2007)
Exploration efforts by Xstrata (XSRAF-O, XTA-L) at its Raglan nickel mine in northernmost Quebec have paid off with a substantial resource boost for the mine’s Zone 5-8, which the company describes as…