BHP’s Queensland ships 1B tonnes coal
It took 38 years but BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance’s (BMA) Queensland coal operation passed a major milestone recently when the company shipped its 1 billionth tonne of coal from the Bowen Basin mi…
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Reuters upholds principles
There were a number of serious inaccuracies in the editorial titled “Benchmark index sees massive overhaul; The CRB is dead; long live the CRB” (T.N.M., June 24-30/05). It implied Reuters and the othe…
Aurora turning cheese into gold in New Zealand
Bear Creek unearths potential bulk-tonnage silver find in Peru
Based on trenching and the results from the first four holes on the Corani silver prospect,
PolyMet advances NorthMet testing (August 01, 2005)
Vancouver —
PEOPLE (August 01, 2005)
Teck Cominco, Sonora partner in Mexico
Vancouver — Mexican explorer
Far West hits copper at Candelaria (August 01, 2005)
Vancouver — Drilling by
Rio Tinto delays Argyle decision
Vancouver — A final decision by
Mercator tools up Mineral Park mine (August 01, 2005)
Vancouver — With an eye to expanding copper production at its Mineral Park mine in northwestern Arizona,
Sold, down the river (August 01, 2005)
The Kelian gold mill, bought from
Editorial: The RMB is A-OK
The Chinese government surprised the world on July 21 by announcing it would let its currency, the yuan or renminbi (RMB), rise in value by 2.1% to 8.11 RMB to the U.S. dollar, after eleven years of p…