Silvercorp Metals Inc. held its Annual General Meeting on September 26, 2008. All matters placed before the shareholders were approved, including the adoption of the proposed shareholder rights plan.
The voting report of the Annual Meeting is available for review on the SEDAR system.
Silvercorp Metals Inc., China’s largest primary silver producer, is engaged in the acquisition, [...]

Silvercorp Metals Inc. provided an update on power supply issues in China. Due to inadequate power coal supply nation wide, and due to measures to insure power supply to the Beijing Olympic Games and to residential consumers during the Olympic Games, governmental rationing has been imposed for industrial usage. As a result, Silvercorp’s mining operations [...]

Two separate coal mine accidents have trapped 45 workers underground, the official Xinhua news agency said, chronicling the latest tragedies to hit the world’s deadliest coal mining industry. Nine of 42 miners escaped after an explosion late Monday at the private Wangzhuang colliery in Henan Province, the report said. The condition of the remaining 33 [...]

Pingdingshan Coal Co. Ltd., a coal firm based in China’s central Henan province, said it plans a listing in Hong Kong after its subsidiary raised 3 billion yuan ($386 million) in a Shanghai listing in November.
Pingdingshan Coal, with 33 million tonnes of coal output and 21.2 billion yuan of revenues, ranks No. 6 among the [...]

China has shuttered more than 8,000 mines over the last 12 months in an effort to more effectively regulate the industry, an official with the Ministry of Land and Resources said Tuesday.
“A series of policies and measures have come out to tighten up mining rights and management, promote the development of mining rights…and strengthen management [...]

Luoyang Luanchuan Molybdenum Group Inc., one of China’s biggest molybdenum producers, plans a Hong Kong initial public offering in early 2007, company officials said on Thursday.
The state-owned company, located in central China’s Henan Province, plans to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to fund a planned smelter and mine expansion, the officials, speaking on [...]

China has raised the capital threshold for projects converting coal to liquid fuel to brake a possible overheating in the coal-chemical industry, as excessive development of the fossil fuel pollutes the environment and strains the water supply.
On July 7, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s industrial watchdog, issued a circular requiring local governments [...]