Australia, NZ & South Pacific

Vedanta investing US$8.8B in base metal expansion

Having received the go-ahead from India’s Supreme Court, Vedanta Resources (VED-L), an India-focused resource giant, is proceeding with a bauxite project in Lanjigarh, in the state of Orissa. An alumi…


BHP Billiton's expansion plans for its Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine, in South Australia, include an open pit that could grow as large as 6 km long and 3 km wide.

BHP Billiton grapples with Olympic Dam expansion

PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA–By the end of this year, BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-L) will have completed a prefeasibility study for transforming the Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold mine into a massive open-…


Harmony, Newcrest, team up in PNG at Hidden Valley

Two of the biggest gold miners not listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange are combining forces in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with the hopes of bringing a large-scale gold and silver mine into production by …










JV buys Kintyre from Rio Tinto

Cameco (CCO-T, CCJ-N) is teaming up with a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp. (MSBHY-O) to buy Rio Tinto’s (RTP-N, RIO-L) Kintyre uranium project in Australia for US$495 million.


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