2010

Inmet advances Cobre Panama (April 12, 2010)

VANCOUVER — A new front-end engineering and design (FEED) study on Inmet Mining’s (IMN-T) Cobre Panama project has brought one of the largest known copper porphyry deposits in the world a step closer to production.Inmet has been advancing…



Drilling at Romarco Minerals' continuously expanding Haile gold project in South Carolina.

Romarco boasts a double hit at Haile

VANCOUVER — Romarco Minerals (R-V) has hit a new gold zone and the best intercept to date at its continuously expanding Haile gold project in South Carolina.



25 dead at Massey coal mine in W. Va.

The worst U.S. mine disaster in more than two decades has left 25 coal miners dead at Massey Energy’s (MEE-N) Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W. Va.



Ivanhoe to develop gold producer in Central Asia

Robert Friedland, executive chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N, IVN-Q), is channeling his energy into developing a pure gold company in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, and says he is in…



Editorial: Grim time for US coal miners

As we go to press, the worst mining disaster in the U.S. or Canada in more than two decades has just occurred at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch underground metallurgical coal mine in Montcoal, W. Va…


Chinese demand drives boron industry: Roskill

In the thirteenth century Marco Polo brought borax glazes, a compound of boron from his travels in Asia back with him to Italy. Eight hundred years later, demand continues to seesaw between the East a…



Gammon lawsuit to proceed

An Ontario court has certified an $80-million class-action lawsuit launched against Gammon Gold (GAM-T, GRS-N) and three financial institutions, but has ruled out certain parties’ from the class actio…


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