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Volume 98 Number 5 Mar 19 - 25, 2012
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Eldorado to grow after good year
Eldorado Gold (ELD-T, EGO-N) rode a wave of higher production and rising gold prices to record earnings in 2011.
Nunatsiavut government lifts moratorium on uranium
A measure of certainty mixed with relief has flooded back into the market about uranium exploration in Labrador after the Nunatsiavut government lifted its three-year moratorium on working, producing, mining and developing uranium on lands…
China’s commodity super cycle is over: Credit Suisse’s Tao
The golden age of China’s infrastructure investment, housing boom, exports and policy stimulus is behind us, argues Dong Tao, Credit Suisse’s head of non-Japan Asia Economics, in a March 5 report to clients.
First Uranium to sell its South African assets
First Uranium (FIU-T) says it will sell chief assets — the Mine Waste Solutions (MWS) tailings recovery project and the Ezulwini gold-uranium mine, both in South Africa — for US$405 million as the underperforming junior…
Coro takes a second swing at San Jorge
One week after renegotiating a purchase agreement on its San Jorge copper-gold porphyry project in Argentina’s Mendoza province, Coro Mining (COP-T) will take another shot at getting the government permits it needs to proceed with mine…
Prophecy Platinum and Ursa Major to merge
Looking to add near-term production potential, Prophecy Platinum (NKL-V) has entered a binding letter of agreement to merge with Ursa Major Minerals (UMJ-T) in an all-share deal.