Centerra Gold (CG-T) plunged more than 30% on June 22, as the Kyrgyzstan parliament debated the fate of the company’s Kumtor gold project in the country while investors worried about the possibility of Centerra losing its mining…
When Xstrata (XTA-L) put its share of the US$5.3-billion Frieda River copper project in Papua New Guinea on the market in late June, there were a few raised eyebrows at the state of affairs in the country — especially given…
VANCOUVER — The Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco) and Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) have agreed to wait a month before Chalco make its official offer to buy Ivanhoe’s stake in SouthGobi Resources (SGQ-T) as doubts remain as to…
VANCOUVER — SouthGobi Resources (SGQ-T) is ramping down production at its Ovoot Tolgoi coal operation in Mongolia as it faces an uncooperative government and dwindling coal contracts.
On the Philippine island of Mindanao, advancement of the Tampakan project — encompassing one of the planet’s largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits — remains in limbo following months of environmental opposition to a planned…
EXCHANGE RATES CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date June 4 June 1 May 31 May 30 May 29 US$ in C 1.0418 1.0380 1.0349 1.0286 1.0253 …
Chief investment strategist Dale Choi of Frontier Securities in Ulaanbaatar reported today that Mongolia’s Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy is proposing measures that would designate at least 30% of the country’s…
After hosting two days of meetings with government policy advisors, experts and consultants about China’s medium- to long-term demand for commodities, the Nomura Group concludes the country’s industrial demand is “moving to…
Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) is shifting gears as it adjusts to Rio Tinto (RIO-N) having acquired a majority ownership stake in the company, and first production approaches at its Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold-silver mine in Mongolia.Ivanhoe released…
Philippines-focused Crazy Horse Resources (CZH-V) has outlined a 15-milliontonne- per-year open-pit copper operation at its Taysan project in a prefeasibility study. The mine plan, like the November scoping study before it, splits the project…
The world’s largest, publicly traded copper producer, Phoenix-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N), is standing tough in the face of simmering labour turmoil and nationalization overtures aimed at its Grasberg…
Having assembled a collection of greenfield copper-gold prospects in Mongolia’s western frontier, Vancouver-based explorer Altan Rio Minerals (AMO-V) is aiming to take the next step forward with a US$2-million drilling campaign in 2012.
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