Rio scraps Chinalco deal for iron-ore joint venture with BHP
Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) shares surged 10.33% on the London Stock Exchange and 6.23% on the New York Stock Exchange…
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Eldorado scoops up 20% stake in Sino Gold
Eldorado Gold (ELD-T, EGO-N) plans to buy a nearly 20% stake in China-focused Sino Gold (SGX-A) in an all-share tra…
Mongolian Election Causes Market Jitters
Sometimes the market gets it right, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Continental Proves Up Second Deposit In Tibet
VANCOUVER — The main deposit alone made Xietongmen a solid copper-gold project. Now Continental Minerals (KMK-V, KMKCF-O) has more than doubled the property’s resource count with a new deposit just 2…
Uranium One Celebrates Start Of Pilot Mining In Kazakhstan
Japanese, Canadian and Kazakh officials collected in a remote corner of Kazakhstan in April to mark the beginning of the pilot-mining phase at the Kharasan uranium project.
Mongolian election up close
Julian Dierkes is one of Canada’s foremost authorities on Mongolia.An assistant professor in Asian studies at the…
CGA Mining to raise $17M
Vancouver – As CGA Mining (CGA-T, CGAFF-O) ships its first gold from the Masbate project 350-km south of Manila i…
New Pacific Cuts High-Grade
New Pacific Metals (NUX-V, NUXFF-O) has intersected high-grade gold in channel samples from a narrow vein on its 57-sq.-km HNK project, in China’s Guangdong province.
Mongolian election to take investment climate temperature
At a shareholders meeting earlier this month Ivanhoe Mine’s (IVN-T, IVN-N) president and chief executive, John Mack…
Continental proves up second deposit at Xietongmen
Vancouver – The main deposit alone made Xietongmen a solid copper-gold project. Now Continental Minerals (KMK-V) …
Red Hill Prefeasibility Sees US$337M Mine At Ulaan Ovoo
VANCOUVER — A prefeasibility study has returned positive economics for Red Hill Energy’s (RH-V, RHFFF-O) Ulaan Ovoo project at moderate thermal coal prices.
Eldorado Gold Q1 Production Falters
VANCOUVER–News of falling revenues, gold sales and production in the first quarter of 2009 barely dented Eldorado Gold’s (ELD-T, EGO-X) share price.