China’s mergers and acquisitions are “stepping up a notch” and with access to cheaper capital from state-owned banks, the Chinese will “continue to outbid the existing producers for assets,” predict the authors of a recent Citi Investment…
Feng Lishe was born in Xinjiang — a province in remote northwestern China where per capita GDP typically averages about US$2,000 a year in the cities and about half that in the countryside.
Allegations of fraud and untrustworthy financial statements that have lead to a class-action lawsuit against former stock market darling Puda Coal (PUDA-X) underscores just how risky doing business in China can be.
At its height, the Sangdong mine in South Korea was one of the largest tungsten-molybdenum mines in the world. But after a forty-year run, the mine was shut down in 1993 when the price of ammonium paratungstate (APT) fell to US$40 per metric…
Vancouver – A Chinese group which invested heavily in Tanzania-focused gold explorer Canaco Resources (CAN-V) just before its discovery of the Handeni gold deposit has recently added to its large interest in Nova Scotia base-metal explorer…
While the environmental and social consequences of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster rightfully remain the central focus of all onlookers, its effect on uranium prices has not gone unnoticed either. In the wake of such a…
China’s M&A is “stepping up a notch” and with access to cheaper capital from state-owned banks the Chinese will “continue to outbid the existing producers for assets,” predict the authors of a new report from CITI Investment Research in…
With silver prices cruising to new heights, investor interest in the sizable Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia has “prompted” Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N, IVN-Q) to “more widely circulate the projections for silver production that have…
Eleven of the 81 provinces in the Philippines have either imposed moratoriums on open-pit mining projects or on the mining of specific minerals, and a twelfth is set to soon join the list, according to Allan & Associates, a security risk…
Shares of Equinox Minerals (EQN-T, EQN-A) surged 31.5% or $1.80 per share to $7.51 today on news that Minmetals Resources wants to buy the company for $6.3 billion — the largest proposed minerals takeover bid in China’s history.
Dissident shareholders of Turkey-focused gold explorer Mediterranean Resources (MNR-T) appear to have forced the resignation of the company’s president and CEO, Peter Guest, aged 73. Newly appointed director Christopher Ecclestone of New York…
Eleven of the 81 provinces in the Philippines have either imposed moratoriums on open-pit mining projects or on the mining of specific minerals, and a twelfth is set to soon join the list, according to Allan & Associates, a security risk…
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