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Jubilee Mines Executive Chairman Kerry Harmanis.

Mid-tier miners steal Diggers & Dealers spotlight

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia — While uranium was a much talked about subject at the recent Diggers & Dealers forum, stockbrokers, fund managers and resource bankers in the capacity crowd were me…




From left: Brian Baird, head of mine planning with Melbourne-based BHP Billiton; McGill University Professor Roussos Dimitrakopoulos; and Michael Eamon, head of hydrometallurgy and technology with BHP Billiton. The company acknowledged the work of Dimitrakopoulos at recent a ceremony where it presented the professor with $800,000 for further research.

McGill mines mineral expert

Renowned scholar Roussos Dimitrakopoulos has joined McGill University in Montreal to pursue his ongoing research into mine engineering….


Copper the only bright spot

U.S. stock markets rose steadily through the first four days of the reporting period July 12-18, but the gains were almost wiped out on the final day of the period. The S&P 500 index was up 1.69 p…





Copper miners make gains

U.S. stock markets rose steadily over the reporting period May 17-23, as good macroeconomic news — an 0.5% annualized increase in the Consumer Price Index and a fall of 20,000 in jobless claims — bo…


Photo by James WhyteGeological director Jaime Duchinni (middle right) displays core from Jaguar Mining's Santa Isabel development project in Minas Gerais state, Brazil.

Springing the scale trap

Belo Horizonte, Brazil — Shovelled out of the verdant hills three centuries ago, or hoisted from modern-day mines, the gold of Minas Gerais is sprinkled through the history of Brazil. It made the kin…


Drillers probe gold mineralization at Barrick Gold's 12.8-million-oz. Veladero gold project in Argentina.

A good gold mine is hard to find

Vancouver — “‘Tis not the gold, ’tis the seeking,” Robert Service poetically observed of the fever that gripped prospectors during the early days of the Klondike rush. More than a century later, the…



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