Cliffs tops KWG offer for Spider
KWG Resources (KWG-V) has until July 6 to match Cliffs Natural Resources’ (CLF-N) latest offer for Spider Reso…
Industrial/Specialty Minerals
MBAC plans to mine phosphate in Brazil
Brazil has a fertilizer problem and a company called MBAC Fertilizer (MBC-T) is looking to capitalize on it by transforming a small phosphate mine, in a growing agricultural region of central Brazil, into a sizeable value-added operation by…
Time for a second look at Bolivia
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — With national elections out of the way here and a spate of local polls completed and showing something of a setback for the populist Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government, the political dust is settling in Bolivia and…
Quadra FNX loses Chinese partner for Sierra Gorda (June 28, 2010)
A Chinese utility company has walked away from a potential 50-50 joint-venture deal with recently-merged Quadra FNX Mining (QUX-T) for its Sierra Gorda copper-gold- molybdenum project and Franke coppe…
Vale goes big and goes home
The 24th trading week of the year saw the world’s biggest iron ore miner — Vale — and Germany’s biggest steelmaker — ThyssenKrupp Steel — usher in a new era in steelmaking in Brazil.
Energizer looking to meet future vanadium demand
Energizer Resources (EGZ-V) continues to get promising results from its Green Giant Vanadium Project in Madaga…
Cliffs goes after Spider
Iron ore and coal giant Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N) has raised its offer for Spider Resources (SPQ-V) by 27% to $109 million, putting a wrench in Spider’s plans to merge with KWG Resources (KWG-V…
NMC Resource mines South Korean moly
Molybdenum prices are trading at US$17.10 per lb. and NMC Resource (NRC-V), which owns 100% of a producing molybdenum mine in South Korea, thinks it’s a good time to be investing in the metal.
Mineral Deposits sets out mine plan
Vancouver – Senegal-focused and Australia-based Mineral Deposits (MDM-T, MDL-A) has released a feasibility stu…
Cliffs goes after Spider to get Big Daddy
Iron ore and coal giant Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N) has raised its offer for Spider Resources (SPQ-V) by …
Wildcat Silver updates resources at Hardshell
For the second time this year Wildcat Silver (WS-V) has updated the resource estimate for its 80%-owned Hardshell property in southern Arizona, which Wildcat’s president and chief executive Chris Jones describes as “one of the most important…
Metals Exploration flaunt promising economics for Runruno
A feasibility study on Metals Exploration’s (MTL-L) Runruno gold-molybdenum project on Luzon Island in the Philippines has “transformed” the project “from a promising resource into a mine-in-waiting,”…