AngloGold Ashanti (AU-N) clearly likes the discounted price on uranium plays and its confidence in one producer is reverberating through the market. The gold producing senior miner is taking a significant position in Toronto-based First Uranium…
Turning around a penniless junior mineral explorer looking to develop a gold project in the Central African Republic, of all places, is not a job most people would relish. Taking the job without a salary in order to save the company money -…
Eastern Platinum (elr-t) saw second quarter production from its main Crocodile River platinum group metals (PGM) mine in South Africa’s Bushveld Complex shrink by one third, due to labour issues that led to a strike at the mine in early May.
In the race to bring the world new sources of rare earths from places other than China, Frontier Rare Earths (FRO-T) put itself in a solid position thanks to a deal with a deep pocketed Korean consortium.
Flush with US$667 million in cash from the sale of its 18.9% stake in the Tarkwa and Damang projects in Ghana to Gold Fields (GFI-N), Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-N) could be on the lookout for other acquisitions in West Africa, Canaccord Wealth…
Frontier Rare Earths (FRO-T) saw its share price jump after announcing an agreement with a Korean firm that will speed-up the development of its Zandkopsdrift rare earth project in South Africa. The agreement was made with Korea Resources…
With concerns mounting about Zambia’s maxed-out smelting capacity, First Quantum Minerals (FM-T, FQM-L) is evaluating whether the time has come to build and operate a copper smelter. A decision will be made later this year.
Disgruntled employees have once again disrupted mining operations on South Africa’s Bushveld Complex, with Platmin (PPN-T) being the latest target.
Newly listed on the TSX in March, Mawson West (MWE-T) has already released a feasibility study on the Kapulo copper target at its Dikulushi concessions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thanks to its previous work as an…
The first diamond tender from Lucara Diamond’s (LUC-V) 75%-owned Mothae mine, in Lesotho, brought in $8.2 million for 9,381 carats of stones earlier this year.
After surviving a hostile bid by Pala Investments in 2008 and then a recession that forced it to put one of its operations on care and maintenance, Rockwell Diamonds (RDI-T) signalled last March that it was no longer in survival mode with the…
Philip Crabb says he “isn’t phased by the current opinion of uranium” and would, if asked, probably urge critics of the nuclear industry to take a trip to China if they needed any convincing that nuclear energy is the way to go.
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