For major mining companies such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, the future life is a combination of their exploration work and enterprise: to find things on their own, to be approached by other companies in deals , or make acquisitions.
Rio growth with Alcan bought last year and is now off fighting an attempt by [...]
Gold briefly pushed past the psychologically important $1,000 mark Thursday, as investors poured money into the metal to hedge against a tumbling dollar, soaring crude prices and a shaky U.S. economy.
Gold’s rally lifted other commodities, with silver, platinum and soybean futures all trading higher. Crude oil hit a trading record of $111 but fluctuated between [...]
The size and composition of some Australian coins may have to change due to the soaring cost of copper and nickel.
This year the metal value of the 5c, 10c and 20c coins will overtake their face value for the first time, News Ltd reported.
The metal content in 10c, 20c and 50c coins was now worth [...]
Copper King Mining Corporation, under the direction of its PR Firm Alexander Lindale L.L.C., has installed 55 full-sized billboards in LA County with 24 to follow in Utah. The billboards invite people to come and view the website for Copper King.
In conjunction with the billboards, there will be the release of a several-minute video [...]
Copper King Mining Corporation is pleased to announce that programmers are working to unite the websites of the two companies upon completion of the merger of the assets of the companies. The combined holdings will be very significant and the name of the company will be Copper King Mining Corporation.
Interested parties may view photos and [...]
Millstream Mines Ltd. is pleased to announce that at its Potter Mine Project in north eastern Ontario, a diamond drill hole, S-07-17 has intersected 15 metres of nickel bearing mineralization grading .16% nickel along with anomalous values of copper, zinc and cobalt. The mineralization is hosted in peridotite. The hole was targeted to test a [...]
The Australian reported that BHP Billiton is in talks to take up a 25% stake in a A$615million (US$733million) bauxite mine and alumina refinery in India`s eastern Orissa province. The deal would be BHP Billiton`s first project in India.
It also reported that Zinifex Ltd and its Belgian partner Umicore Group are believed to have appointed [...]
UGANDA is endowed with over 50 minerals, ranking it among the countries in Africa with the biggest number of minerals, the assistant commissioner in charge of geology has said.
“Uganda’s metallic and non-metallic minerals are over 50 in number. But there are many unknown minerals whose existence shall be made known after completion of the two [...]
Grenville Gold Corporation is pleased to announce that its subsidiary Inversiones Mineras Alexander S.A.C. has purchased 31 new mineral concessions totaling 620 Ha from various mineral title owners, to bring the total mineral concessions under the Silveria Project to 2,797 Ha. Grenville is now in a position to maximize the full potential of the former [...]
CROWFLIGHT MINERALS INC. is pleased to announce that it has acquired additional property adjacent to the former producing Manibridge Nickel Mine in the central portion of the Thompson Nickel Belt, approximately 15 kilometres south of its Bucko Lake Nickel project, currently under development.
Crowflight has added approximately 83 square kilometres (32 square miles) to its [...]
