VANCOUVER — Shaanxi Coal Industry is preparing for its initial public offering (IPO) and expects to raise $1.6 billion by selling shares representing just 10% of the company. It’s a good reminder that coal is still big business in…
Indonesia’s nickel ban has strongly influenced the market in early 2014, but how will this development affect the long-term outlook? The following commentary by London-based Roskill Information Services examines the impact of the…
While challenging market conditions are forcing many companies to axe their exploration budgets, Denison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE-MKT: DNN) is pumping $15 million into a 60,000-metre drill program in the Athabasca basin in 2014, marking one of its…
OceanaGold (TSX: OGC; US-OTC: OGDCF; ASX: OGC) exceeded its gold and copper production guidance for 2013 at lower than planned costs, while slashing debt by US$45 million in the fourth quarter, the company reports.
The crisis for miners in Indonesia that quietly built up over late December has exploded in the new year, as miners active there grapple with sweeping new restrictions on exports of raw concentrates from the country.
OceanaGold (TSX: OGC; US-OTC: OGDCF; ASX: OGC) has reduced the mine life for its Macraes gold mine in New Zealand, but expects a strong production year at its new Didipio copper–gold mine in the Philippines, leaving many investors…
A private Chinese exploration and development company that claims to own three gold mines in China valued at about US$15 billion and also operates assets in the rare earths sector has retracted a press release issued this morning stating…
VANCOUVER — Besra Gold (TSX: BEZ) is laying the groundwork for its third gold mine with a feasibility study for a first stage of development at its Bau project in East Malaysia.
Like in any industry, supply-demand imbalances in mining products are at the root of dramatic price fluctuations and market upheavals. This is what has been happening in the mining industry in 2013: market imbalances have led to rock bottom…
Vancouver hedge-fund executive and owner of the Alfred Little financial blog, Jon Richard Carnes, has lashed out at the British Columbia Securities Commission after it accused him of fraud, calling the allegations “false and without…
Two years ago what is now Singapore-listed LionGold (SGX: SIGO) was called “Think Environmental Co.,” and it held investments and managed businesses in the renewable energy sector.
The markets for platinum and palladium will likely be in a deficit in 2014, according to a report by London-based Johnson Matthey.
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