Rio Tinto plc

Rio Tinto (RTP-N) has two focused nickel exploration plays; one continues to explore for high-grade, nickel-copper sulphide mineralization in the northern U.S. and Canada, and the s…

‘Bigger was better’ for resource companies trading on U.S. markets over the report period Nov. 1-7, with large coal and copper companies hogging most of the action and share-price increases. North Ame…

A revised feasibility study on the Lumwana copper project in northwestern Zambia shows a 20-million-tonne-per-year open-pit mine could be economic….

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Kinross Gold (K-T, KGC-N) has restated its 2003 earnings following a long-awaited accounting cleanup that revalued its acquisition of TVX Gold and Echo Bay Mines….

Miner Lihir Gold (LIHRY-Q, LHG-A) expects to resume full production at its Lihir Island pressure-oxidation and carbon-in-leach processing plant in Papua New Guinea in early November…

U.S. equity markets pulled out of a long slide on Oct. 14 and 17, finishing the reporting period Oct. 11-17 a little higher. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 1%, finishing at 10,348.10 points,…