Chinese rare earth miners are being forced to phase out excessive production capacity as rising overseas suppliers chip away at their dominance in the global market. Russia announced in April its plan to invest $1 billion in rare earth ...
Tags: Rare Earth, Mineral
Pan American Silver Corp. (NASDAQ: PAAS) (TSX: PAA) ("Pan American" or the "Company") has decided to proceed with the expansion of its La Colorada mine in Zacatecas, Mexico, based on the positive results of a recently completed Preliminary ...
Robert Friedland, Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) (formerly Ivanplats, TSX: IVP), and Lars-Eric Johansson, Chief Executive Officer, announced today that the company's ongoing dewatering program has achieved its key initial ...
China's copper industry reached a supply-demand balance this year, but an overcapacity situation will inevitably occur next year, said industrial experts. "The growth of China's consumption of refined copper will be lower than the ...
Tags: copper, metallurgy
Nickel prices are likely to be pushed higher in 2014 if Indonesia introduces an export ban on laterite nickel ore, which would tighten supply particularly for China, according to Dan Loughner, the head of Australian nickel producer Western ...
Tags: nickel ore, pollution, energy
According to BHP Billiton said that based on security consideration which would suspend the Perseverance of underground operations at the mine. In October this year in nickel mine in Western Australia was a minor earthquake and may have ...
With the defeat of the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), this vast blighted country is poised for a brighter future. But a new US law designed to help the region escape its poverty looks set to do just the opposite. ...
Tags: Democratic Republic of the Congo, M23 rebels, conflict minerals
In 2013, Australia's exports of metallurgical coal are expected to increase by an estimated 12 percent to 162 million metric tons, according to a report by the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). In 2014, increased ...
Tags: iron, metallurgy, coal
Bowie Resource Partners LLC, a joint venture between Bowie Resources, LLC and the Galena Private Equity Resource Fund managed by Galena Asset Management, has today completed the purchase of Canyon Fuel Company LLC from Arch Coal, Inc. for ...
Tags: BRP, Canyon Fuel Mines, joint venture, coal producing
Trafigura's Mining Group announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its 98.68% stake in Compañia Minera Condestable SA ("CMC") to Southern Peaks Mining LP ("SPM"). Completion of the sale is subject to certain conditions ...
Denison Mines Corp. ("Denison" or the "Company") (TSX:DML)(NYSE MKT:DNN) is pleased to announce that it has signed an option agreement with Strateco Resources Inc. ("Strateco"), whereby Denison has granted Strateco the option to earn up to ...
Tags: Denison, Strateco, Jasper Lake, mineral, mine, uranium property
According to South Africa-based Kumba Iron Ore, subsidiary of Anglo American, South Africa's constitutional court has ruled that only Kumba Iron Ore can apply for the remaining 21.4 percent mining right in Sishen iron ore mine. Kumba, ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral
China's Ministry of Commerce on Friday announced the first round of 2014 export quotas for non-ferrous metals including rare earth and a list of enterprises eligible for export. Apart from rare earth, the first round of export quotas ...
Tags: China, Non-Ferrous Metal, Export Quotas
New Gold Inc. ("New Gold") (TSX:NGD) and (NYSE MKT:NGD) today announces the results of the Feasibility Study for its Blackwater Gold project ("Blackwater" or the "Project") in British Columbia, Canada. "The completion of the Blackwater ...
Atlatsa Resources Corporation (Atlatsa) (TSXV: ATL; NYSE MKT: ATL; JSE:ATL) is pleased to announce that the South African Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) has executed amended mining rights in favour of its subsidiary, Bokoni Platinum ...
Tags: mineral