Australia, NZ & South Pacific

Processing facilities at OceanaGold's Didipio gold mine in the Philippines.  Source: OceanaGold

OceanaGold fires on all cylinders

There aren’t many companies in the mining sector these days that can pay off large chunks of debt from operating cash flow and embark on sizable acquisitions at the same time. But OceanaGold (TSX: OGC) is one of them.


A map showing assets that have been spun of out BHP Billiton into the new company South32.  Credit: South32

Analysts weigh in on BHP spinoff South32

In April BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage of BHP Billiton (LSE: BLT) spin-off South32, (LSE: S32; US-OTCBB: SOUHY)commenting that the shares of the newly created mining company “represent a more compelling investment than BHP…


Simon Houlding (middle) accepts the 2015 Vale Medal for Meritorious Contributions to Mining from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum in May. Credit: EduMine

EduMine’s Simon Houlding wins Vale medal

Growing up in Zimbabwe after World War II, completing an engineering degree at the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, and working at Jones & Wagener, a specialist firm of consulting engineers and scientists based in South Africa,…


A box cut under construction for the first access declines to the planned underground copper mine at Kamoa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ivanhoe Mines has sold almost half its stake in the project to Zijin Mining Group. Credit: Ivanhoe Mines

China’s Zijin Mining buys into Barrick, Ivanhoe assets

Just a week after Vale (NYSE: VALE) unveiled a memorandum of understanding with one of China’s largest commercial banks for financing arrangements worth up to US$4 billion, Zijin Mining Group of southern Fujian province has agreed to…



TSX slides, May 4-8

Poor jobs data and a decline in energy stocks after the New Democratic Party majority win in Alberta sent the S&P/TSX Composite Index down 1.1% to 15,170.02. The S&P/TSX Capped Diversified Metals & Mining Index fell 2.8% to 805.08,…



A Nautilus owned ship suspends underwater drilling equipment in the air. Source: Nautilus Minerals

Nautilus targets 2018 for undersea mining

VANCOUVER — It’s been a bounce-back 12 months for junior Nautilus Minerals (TSX: NUS; US-OTC: NSUMF), which has overcome a major sociopolitical hurdle to get back on track to develop the world’s first undersea mining operation…



TSX falls on higher oil, gold prices, March 23-27

Canadian stocks fell for a third straight week, following bleak U.S. economic data and rising tensions in the Middle East. Oil and gold prices spiked after Saudi Arabia and its allies launched airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are…



A drill site at Novo Resources' Beatons Creek gold project in Australia's Pilbara region. Credit: Novo Resources

Golden payoff in the Pilbara for Novo Resources

VANCOUVER — It’s easy pickings for Novo Resources (US-OTC: NSRPF) at its Beatons Creek paleoplacer gold deposit near the historic gold mining town of Nullagine in the eastern Pilbara region of Western Australia.


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