Xstrata Copper Canada is pleased to announce it has reached a tentative agreement with the Union Executives of CAW-Local 599 for the renewal of the collective agreement at the Kidd Metallurgical site.
Kidd Metallurgical employees are expected to vote on the agreement on November 6, 2008. The collective agreement expired on September 30, 2008 at midnight [...]
Hidalgo Mining International, an innovative mining company headquartered in Port Washington, N.Y., announced that its new corporate offices have officially opened at # 20, Avenue Lamartiniere Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Mark Daniel Klok, President of HMIT, stated: “The Company has now opened its new offices at # 20, Avenue Lamartiniere Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Mr. O’Donnell Maximin, who is one [...]
Xstrata Copper announces investment of C$121 million to deepen and extend the life of the underground Kidd Mine located in the Timmins area of Northern Ontario, Canada.
Already the world’s deepest copper and zinc mine, the latest project will extend the mining zone at Mine D from 9,100 feet to 9,500 feet, improving the production profile [...]
U Mining Resources Inc. (Other OTC:UMNG.PK - News) today provided updates on the impending agreement in the Republic of Guinea. Comitrag S.A., the majority-owned subsidiary of U Mining, has been preparing the necessary additional documentation to satisfy the requirements of the Company’s official application for the BOOT Agreement.
When U Mining and Comitrag met with Guinea’s [...]
Reserves of uranium have been found in the west African country of Guinea by Australian mining company Murchison United NL, Guinean Mines and Geology Minister Ahmad Kante announced.
The discovery resulted from analysis of samples taken from the Firawa site at Kissidougou 600 kilometres (400 miles) southeast of the capital Conakry, the minister told an AFP [...]
United Company RUSAL, the world`s largest aluminium producer, is considering mining the raw material bauxite in Mozambique, Interfax news agency reported, citing a Russian government official.
Officials from RUSAL held discussions in December about developing bauxite reserves in the African country, Interfax quoted Mikhail Kamyshin, official representative of Russia`s foreign ministry, as saying.
He was speaking ahead [...]
Guinea`s Mines Ministry said the country`s parliament had recommended it renegotiate contracts with a US oil company and a Russian-controlled bauxite producer to obtain better terms for the nation.
Guinea`s new government, appointed in March as part of a deal to end violent strikes and protests in the world`s top bauxite exporter, said last month it [...]
Guinea, the world’s number one bauxite expor-ter, says it is with-drawing agreements made with a U.S. oil company and a Russian-managed bauxite producer as part of a planned review of minerals contracts.
The withdrawals were announced in a government statement read on state television Sunday.
They referred to a production-sharing contract with American oil company Hyperdynamics and [...]
Unions in Guinea resumed a general strike on Monday in protest against President Lansana Conte’s rule and disrupted mining operations in the world’s top bauxite exporter, witnesses and officials said.
For the second time in a month, markets, shops, schools, banks and administration offices were closed in the capital Conakry and other towns around the West [...]
Gazprom, the world’s largest producer of natural gas, and Russia’s largest enterprise, has disclosed that it is considering a plan to explore for gas and oil in Equatorial Guinea.
A Gazprom spokesman told Mineweb that Gazprom’s deputy chief executive, Alexander Medvedev, was in Equatorial Guinea this week, and met the President, the Minister of Power, and [...]
