Calyon CMR has made sizeable upgrades to its 2007 forecast prices for lead and nickel on expectations for continued high demand at a time inventories are slumping, it said.
The investment bank has hiked its price outlook on nickel by 12.3 pct to 34,250 usd per tonne and on lead by 26.4 pct to 1,580 usd, [...]

RIDDLE - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed adding an abandoned copper and zinc mine near the southwestern Oregon town of Riddle to the list of Superfund toxic waste cleanup sites.
After a 60-day public comment period, the agency will decide whether to add the Formosa Mine to the Superfund priority list, making it eligible [...]

Albidon Ltd listed on both AIM and the ASX in March 2004 with a view to developing its portfolio of nickel-platinum projects in Southern Africa. The ticker symbol is ALD on AIM and ALB on the ASX; market capitalisation is approximately £109 million or US$215 million. The company states that its strategy is threefold: to [...]

Impala Platinum (Implats) and Aquarius Platinum’s expansion of output at its Mimosa Platinum mine in Zimbabwe is one of many steps in a broader strategy to increase Implats’ production of platinum group metals (PGMs) to 2.3 million ounces in 2010.
The owners of Mimosa announced today they would increase production here to 195,000 platinum group metals [...]

Andean American Mining is pleased to provide this update on the ongoing operations for its 100% owned Santa Rosa Mine in Peru. Very poor metals recoveries were the cause of operating losses during the past 4 quarters. The challenge has been not only to optimize the recovery rates for gold, which have been as low [...]

Century Mining Corp. chief executive Margaret Kent is seeking to invest in more projects in Peru after acquiring a minority stake in Peruvian miner Compania Minera Poderosa S.A. earlier this week.
Kent, who once headed Royal Oak Mines while her name was Peggy Witte, said Century is looking at two to three prospective properties a week [...]

About 100 workers at the Beverley uranium mine in South Australia’s far north have potentially been exposed to uranium through contaminated drinking water.
The mine’s owner, Heathgate Resources, says the water supply was contaminated on Thursday when a technician cleaning a desalination unit mistakenly added a solution containing uranium.
The company says the water supply was quickly [...]