China has determined that its first tranche of export quotas for rare earth elements in 2012 will be 10,546 tonnes, down 27% from its first tranche of export quotas in 2011, but the China Daily reported that officials at the Ministry of…
Weeks of mounting tension between opposing factions of the board of Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines (MSQ-V) came to the fore at the company’s annual general meeting on Dec. 16, as shareholders finally had their say in the matter.
At a base-case gold price of US$1,300 per oz. and US$25 per oz. for silver and throughput of 45,000 tonnes per day, an open-pit mine at International Minerals’ (IMZ-T) Converse project in Nevada returns a pre-tax non-discounted cash flow of…
Rye Patch Gold (RPM-V) shares surged 84% to 71¢ on Dec. 5 on news the junior scooped up lapsed mining claims from Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDM-T, CDE-N) in Nevada’s Rochester mining district.
A second feasibility study on the Donlin gold project in southwestern Alaska puts capital costs at US$6.7 billion – down from US$7 billion – and includes US$834 million for building a 500-km natural gas pipeline and US$984 million in…
Vancouver – Weeks of mounting tension between opposing factions of the board of Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines (MSQ-V) came to the fore at the company’s annual general meeting on December 16 as shareholders finally had their say in the…
Jay Chmelauskas bought his 100%-electric Nissan Leaf about a month ago and charges its battery at one of two charging stations across the street from the Pan Pacific Hotel in downtown Vancouver. The car gets him around town and his family…
In August Molycorp’s (MCP-N) proposed partnership with Hitachi Metals to create a joint venture that would manufacture neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) alloy and permanent rare earth magnets fell through when the two companies failed to reach an…
An updated feasibility study on the Donlin gold project in southwestern Alaska puts capital costs at US$6.7 billion–down from US$7.0 billion–and includes US$834 million for the construction of a 500 km natural gas pipeline and US$984…
Shares of Rye Patch Gold (RPM-V) surged 84.4% to close at 71¢ yesterday on news that the junior had scooped lapsed mining claims from a subsidiary of major Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDM-T, CDE-N) in the Rochester mining district of Nevada.
Analysts from Goldman Sachs (GS-N) have forecast commodity prices will increase by 15% in 2012, with the influential investment bank maintaining an ‘overweight’ recommendation on commodities for the next 12 months.
In late October Molycorp (MCP-N) bused journalists from Fortune, Wired, Mother Jones and The Northern Miner, among others, down Interstate Highway 15 from Las Vegas to meet president and chief executive Mark Smith and tour the company’s…
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