Industrial/Specialty Minerals


Editorial: BHP blows US$800M on failed transactions

BHP Billiton formally withdrew its hostile, US$40-billion cash offer for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan on Monday after the Canadian government had rejected it two weeks earlier on the grounds that it did not provide a “net benefit” to…


Leaning against a rig at Lithium Americas' flagship Cauchari project in northern Argentina, from left: president and CEO Waldo Perez and vice-president of exploration John W. Kieley.

Lithium Americas steps up Cauchari

SITE VISIT SUSQUES, JUJUY PROVINCE, ARGENTINA ARGENTINA — What once was overlooked as a clay basin is now set to become one of the largest lithium brine deposits in the world by 2014.Lithium Americas’ (LAC-T) flagship Cauchari project…


At Malaga's Pasto Bueno tungsten project in Peru, from left: Alonso Sanchez, chief geologist; Pierre Monet, vice president and CFO; Jean Martineau, president and CEO; Martin Wong, board member.

Malaga breaks Chinese grip on tungsten

SITE VISIT PASTO BUENO, PERU — It’s a story that is starting to sound all too familiar: China holds a lock on the supply of a strategic metal and is…










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