Etruscan boosts Blue Gum diamond resource
For the last four years, Etruscan Resources (EET-T, ETRUF-O), through its 53.7%-owned subsidiary Etruscan Diamonds, has been quietly buying up properties in South Africa’s Ventersdorp alluvial diamond…
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Anvil updates Kinsevere feasibility
Anvil Mining (AVM-T, AVM-A) has updated a preliminary study on its Kinsevere copper project, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), based on a recent 45,370- metre drilling program that has li…
Hunting for nickel in Tanzania
Tanzania’s prospective Kabanga nickel belt was first discovered by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the 1970s.
De Beers takes US$965-million hit for Snap Lake
Capital cost overruns at De Beers’ Snap Lake diamond mine in the Northwest Territories forced the company to take a…
Is coal the new gold? (February 08, 2008)
UBS and Citigroup have raised their price forecasts for thermal and coking coal for the coming two years and it’s n…
DRC Minister of Mines says all contracts to be reviewed
Cape Town – Mining companies working in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) saw their share prices drop on Tuesd…
Anvil Mining updates feasibility on Kinsevere copper project in DRC
Anvil Mining (AVM-T, AVM-A) has updated a preliminary study on its Kinsevere copper project based on a recent 45,37…
Western Bushveld partners fine-tune feasibility
Vancouver — Platinum Group Metals (PTM-T, PLG-X) and its Western Bushveld Joint Venture (WBJV) partners, Anglo Platinum (ANP-L, AMS-J) and Wesizwe Platinum (WEZ-J), are looking to refine some of the …
Etruscan, Resolute look beyond ‘easy oxide’
On the heels of a 53% increase in resources at the Finkolo gold project in western Mali, joint-venture partners Etruscan Resources (EET-T, ETRUF-O) and Resolute Mining (RMGGF-O, RSG-a) are forging ahe…
New resource for Sunridge’s Asmara
New resource estimates for two of four deposits at Sunridge Gold’s (SGC-V, SGCNF-O) Asmara project show a significant increase in size, the company says.
South African power crisis shuts down mines (February 04, 2008)
Vancouver — A nationwide energy crunch in South Africa has hit the country’s powerful mining sector hard, with major gold, platinum and diamond producers suspending operations as a precautionary meas…
EDITOR’S PICKS: TOP STORIES OF WEEK 4
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…