SouthGobi sells metal properties to Ivanhoe
Vancouver – For $3 million Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) is buying all the metal assets of its 79% owned spin-off So…
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Mongolia Sends Positive Signal To Foreign Miners
Mongolia’s parliament has voted to set a February 2009 deadline for completing a long-awaited draft investment agreement for Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-n) and Rio Tinto’s (RTP-N, RIO-L) massive Oyu Tol…
Silvercorp gains on TLP-LM prefeasibility study
Vancouver – China’s largest primary-silver producer, Silvercorp Metals (SVM-T, SVMFF-O), now has a five-year …
Jinshan Adds More Gold At Dadiangou
Jinshan Gold Mines (JIN-T, JINFF-O) has defined a higher-grade core zone within its Dadiangou gold deposit in China’s Gansu province that is likely to enhance the project’s economics. The higher-grade…
Second Time’s The Charm At Boyongan
Vancouver–The Boyongan copper- gold project’s second prefeasibility study this year has come to a different conclusion than the first.
Carpathian Doubles Rovina Gold Resource
Carpathian Gold (CPN-T, CPNFF-o) has doubled the resource at its Rovina Valley project in the heart of the Golden Quadrilateral of western Romania’s Transylvania region, 300 km northwest of Bucharest.
Mongolia sends positive signal to miners
Mongolia’s parliament has voted to set a February 2009 deadline for completing a long-awaited draft investmen…
Jinshan adds more higher grade gold in Gansu
Jinshan Gold Mines (JIN-T) has defined a higher-grade core zone within its Dadiangou gold deposit in China’s …
KAL Energy boosts its coal resource in Indonesia
Thermal coal explorer and developer KAL Energy (KALG-O) has expanded its resource at one of two concessions it hold…
Rare Earths Shortage Looming?
The key metals needed for hybrid cars, flat-screen TVs and energy-efficient lighting could be in short supply in a few years’ time if rare earth element mines aren’t developed outside of China, some i…
Boyongan returns positive economics in Philex Gold’s prefeasibility study
Vancouver – It is the Philippine project’s second prefeasibility study this year.
China’s GDP growth slows to a simmer
As chief economist for non-Japan Asia at Credit Suisse First Boston in Hong Kong and a former senior regional economist and head of China research at Schroders Securities Asia, Dong Tao is probably on…