Since the beginning of the year, prospect-generator Arena Minerals (TSXV: AN) — whose shares traded at only 17¢ at press time — has enticed two heavyweight players in the mining industry to sign option agreements on parts…
A year after selling its 50% interest in U.K. building materials group Lafarge Tarmac for US$1.6 billion, Anglo American (US-OTC: AAUKY; LSE: AAL) has reached a deal to unload two of its smaller Chilean copper mines to a consortium led by…
Haywood Securities analyst Kerry Smith says Greece’s energy minister Panos Skourletis was on a “fishing expedition” when he revoked the technical studies on Eldorado Gold’s (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) Skouries and Olympias…
The surprise devaluation of China’s currency on Aug. 11 pulled many base metal prices lower on fears that demand from the world’s largest buyer of metals would fall. The price of safe-haven gold, by contrast, rose 1.8% to finish at…
VANCOUVER — Vanguard executive chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) Robert Friedland took to the stage at the Sprott Natural Resource Symposium in Vancouver in late July, and delivered a talk about why he believes copper…
The natural resources industry of Newfoundland and Labrador — beaten down as it is by the steep decline in iron ore and oil prices — has received a most welcome board-level confirmation from Vale that it will indeed pursue…
Queensland, Australia-based contract miner Thiess has landed a A$137-million contract for work at Antofagasta’s Encuentro Oxides open-pit copper project under development in Chile.
The following is an edited excerpt from KPMG’s Mining M&A Quarterly Newsletter. For more information and to see the full report visit www.kpmg.com
Expectations that the Fed would raise interest rates in September — along with economic turmoil in Asia and Europe — weighed on U.S. markets over the trading period.
In a letter to shareholders earlier this year, Amir Adnani, chairman of Brazil Resources (TSXV: BRI; US-OTC: BRIZF), stated that the company’s strategy since its initial public offering in 2011 has been “to take advantage…
VANCOUVER — An updated technical report filed by First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM; US-OTC: FQVLF) on its 80% owned Kansanshi copper operations, 10 km north of Solwezi, Zambia, sent analysts scrambling to lower target share prices for the…
Reservoir Minerals (TSXV: RMC; US-OTC: RVRLF) has reported an 84-metre drill intercept grading 10.8% copper and 10.86 grams gold (17.3% copper equivalent), including 46 metres of 15.9% copper and 16.77 grams gold (25.9% copper equivalent),…
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