Mining companies would give their eye teeth to exploit Afghanistan’s recently discovered $1 trillion of untapped mineral wealth, but analysts warn that corruption, war and lack of basic infrastructure are likely to continue delaying ...
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Mr Vajihollah Jafari deputy industry minister said that over the past 3 years, Iran has discovered over 11 billion tonnes of minerals. Between March 2010 and March 2012, about IRR 1.6 trillion was invested in the field of mineral ...
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Prosperity Minerals has revealed it will take longer than originally planned to conclude the master restructuring process. The company, an iron ore trading business serving China, which also owns real estate, revealed back in October that ...
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Alicanto Minerals has signed a share purchase agreement with Takara Resources to acquire all of the shares in its wholly owned subsidiary StrataGold Guyana. StrataGold Guyana owns the Arakaka and Tassawini Gold Projects,which span 550 ...
Business Standard reported that GAIL has started issuing compensation to land owners who have lost their land to the gas pipeline project, connecting the Kochi LNG terminal to Bangalore and Mangalore. The first set of cheques were ...
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China's Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Group one of the largest producers of rare earth minerals in the world, announced that it has signed agreements with 12 Inner Mongolia based upstream rare earth enterprises and their ...
MNA reported that Iran plans to extract some 400 million tonne of minerals by the end of the current Iranian calendar year(March 20,2013), IRNA quoted deputy industry minister Mr Vajihollah Jafari as saying that the figure will be around ...
The sharemarket moved the dial a click further to boom conditions by closing at a 19-month high thanks to growing interest in blue chips and miners, and a strong tailwind from the US market's fiscal resolution-driven 2.35 per cent, ...
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The sharemarket closed higher for a second day yesterday, buoyed by a last-minute budget deal in the US that drove global equities and commodity prices sharply higher on Wednesday night. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 finished up 0.7 per cent ...
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Market watchers predict the local sharemarket will forge further ahead this year after surging almost 15 per cent last year, the result of a second-half recovery that defied concerns about sovereign debt in Europe and the US and a Chinese ...
Tags: shares, 2013, non resource sectors, sharemarket
It is reported that a deposit containing large quantities of high quality iron ore has been discovered in the Chiuta district,in the central region of the Mozambican province of Tete. A source from the National Mining Directorate said ...
Tags: Australian, high quality iron ore, Moza, Capitol Resources
Vale Sohar, one of the largest bulk carriers in the world, was welcomed to Oman by members of the North Al Batinah community headed by Mr HE Sheikh Hilal bin Ali Al Habsi, Wali of Sohar. With the capacity to transport 400,000 tonne of ...
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This year presents Amur Minerals with an opportunity to update a former pre-feasibility study for its flagship Kun Manie nickel-copper project. Analyst Tom Hayes said that drilling results in 2012 have pointed to an overall increase ...
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For a country with one of the largest reserves of natural resources in the world,the transformational potential of India's resources sector is immense.The sector has the potential to add USD 1 trillion to the Indian economy that can ...
Tags: economy, natural resource, greenfield exploration, poverty, India
There is no single rare earth element market. Instead, the rare earth universe is made up of four or five distinct "critical rare earth" markets that should be the focus for investors today. Even with new mine supply and refining capacity ...
Tags: Jack Lifton, rare earth element market, Metallurgy, Mineral