South African miners fall behind
Cape Town, South Africa – The mood at the 2011 Mining Indaba conference in South Africa was markedly upbeat as the industry experiences booming growth, but the host nation was left wondering how it had missed out.
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Entre Gold is ‘sitting pretty’
Entrée Gold (etg-t, egi-x) is “strongly undervalued” given the potential that exists for it to sell its Mongolian assets to Ivanhoe Mines (ivn-t, ivn-n) or Rio Tinto (rio-n, rio-l), Christopher Ecclestone of Hallgarten & Co. argues…
Sherritt supports blindness prevention in Madagascar
Sherritt International (s-t) has donated $32,000 to Seva Canada, to help the charity restore sight and prevent blindness for people in Madagascar.
RBC Capital initiates coverage of Trelawney
Analysts Stephen Walker and Richard Bishop of RBC Capital Markets estimate that when Trelawney Mining and Exploration (trr-v) releases its initial resource estimate in the first or second quarter of this year, the junior gold explorer will have…
Sunridge hits more high-grade copper-gold
Sunridge Gold (sgc-v) has released its second round of drill results in two weeks, with more significant gold-copper-silver hits at its Asmara project in Eritrea.
Letter to the editor: How business really gets done in the DRC
Regarding the article “African Copperbelt: still risky after all these years” (T.N.M., Feb. 7-13/11), the problems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have not yet begun.
Copper Canyon rejects NovaGold bid
Copper Canyon Resources’ (cpy-v) board has unanimously rejected as inadequate a hostile takeover bid launched by joint-venture partner NovaGold Resources (ng-t, ng-x).
African Aura’s Nkout tops a billion tonnes of iron ore in Cameroon
A first resource estimate for African Aura Mining’s (aur-v, aaam-l) Nkout iron project in southern Cameroon has more than a billion tonnes.
Dundee moves forward in Bulgaria
After six years, Bulgaria’s government has granted a 30-year concession to Canada’s Dundee Precious Metals (dpm-t), bringing it a step closer to developing its Khan Krum deposit in Krumovgrad into an open-pit gold mine. But the company must…
Goldcorp sells Osisko shares for $530M
Goldcorp (g-t, gg-n) has sold its 10.1% equity interest in Osisko Mining (osk-t) for roughly $530 million.
Medusa Mining delivers on promise (February 25, 2011)
Record gold production at low cash costs averaging US$186 per oz. contributed to record net profit after tax of US$58.1 million in the six months ended Dec. 31 2010, Medusa Mining (MLL-T, MML-L, MML-A) reports.
New Goldquest execs bring extensive Dominican experience
Vancouver – Goldquest Mining (GQC-V) has undergone significant management changes as it prepares to advance its prospects in both the Dominican Republic and Spain.