La Mancha, a privately held investment company controlled by the family of Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris — who earlier this month tweeted that he wants to buy an island in Europe to provide a home for refugees fleeing war-torn Syria…
The following is an edited summary from Roskill Information Services, outlining its new report, Frac Sands & Proppants North America: Industry, Markets & Outlook 2015. The report provides a detailed technical and economic analysis of…
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has partnered with Laurentian University in Sudbury and Limpopo University in South Africa to develop Limpopo’s geology department into a “centre of excellence in geosciences.”
VANCOUVER — Attending the Coal Association of Canada’s annual gathering here in downtown Vancouver, it’s clear it’s a pretty terrible time to be in the coal business, and that goes for both the metallurgical (met or…
For global gold miners, the emerging gold mining industry in Burkina Faso has been a wonderful success story of discovery and mine development in a land that until recently had little modern industry of any kind, or infrastructure.
Galaxy Broadband has announced that Spectrum Telecom will represent the enterprise telecommunications provider in northern Ontario.
Latin American miners gave low grades to equipment manufacturers in a recent survey by data and intelligence firm Timetric.
Polyus Gold (LSE: POLG) has tapped Wenco International Mining Systems to provide high-precision guidance for shovels and drills at its Blagodatnoye gold mine in eastern Siberia. The technology will be installed by the end of 2015.
I find Mr. Rule’s comments about junior resource companies to be incredibly frustrating and unhelpful (“Interview: Market insights from Sprott’s Rick Rule,” T.N.M., Aug. 31–Sept. 6/15). It’s easy to call for the wiping…
Stephen Harper is the only Canadian prime minister to ever attend the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto. As a show of respect on election day Oct. 19, he’ll have my vote.
As miners active in Guatemala sit on the sidelines with furrowed brows, Guatemala has been embroiled in a political turmoil stoked by an anti-corruption drive that has led to the arrest of President Otto Perez Molina and the rise of a genial…
South Africa-based Lonmin (LSE: LMI), one of the world’s largest primary producers of platinum group metals (PGMs), has signed an option agreement to earn a 50% initial interest in Wallbridge Mining’s (TSX: WM) four Parkin…
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