SITE VISIT SURIGAO, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES — A steep climb up a slippery hillside, sweating in the tropical heat and humidity, awaits those who want to properly appreciate Mindoro Resources’ (MIO-V) Agata nickel laterite project in the…
SOUTH GOBI DESERT, MONGOLIA — “Closeology” can sometimes be just as valuable as geology, says Lindsay Bottomer, vice-president of business development for Entrée Gold (ETG-T, EGI-X, EKA-F), a Canadian junior explorer that has tossed its…
VANCOUVER — Tucked away in rural Malaysia, Vancouver-based Monument Mining (MMY-V, D7Q1-F) has quickly and quietly been bringing online a respectably sized gold mine.Monument acquired the Selinsing gold project in June 2007 and has since…
Prophecy Resource (PCY-T, PRPCF-O) has recently upgraded the inferred resources at its Chandgana Khavtgai coal project, in east central Mongolia, to the measured and indicated category.The project’s resource now weighs in at 1.07 billion…
Sergey Kirienko, the director general of Russia’s Rosatom, said the state-run nuclear holding company had no plans to buy out Uranium One (UUU-T), adding that its investment in the Canadian company wo…
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — You don’t want to lean over too far when peering down one of the dark narrow man-dug mine shafts at Riverstone Resources’ (RVS-V) Karma gold project. If you were to fall, …
Daily Metal Prices Date Aug. 30 Aug. 27 Aug. 26 Aug. 25 Aug. 24 BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange –Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne) Al Alloy Holiday 2160/2050 2135/2035 21…
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$9,600.00/t.
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Aug. 27, 2010 (change from Aug. 20 in brackets):
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The U.S. Commerce Department revised its second-quarter gross domestic product growth figure from 2.4% to 1.6% just hours before U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the economic recov…
Two days in the red were curbed by three days in the black for the S&P/TSX Venture composite index over the Aug 23-27 trading week, leaving the board up 9.23 points at 1,488.85. The overall gain k…
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