Commodities trader Glencore (glen-l) is looking to combine with Xstrata (xta-l) in a possible all-share merger of equals, which will see the combined entity dominate the global markets for thermal coal, zinc, lead and ferrochrome, and become a…
Over the last month Great Western Minerals (GWG-T) has completed a joint-venture with the Chinese to build a rare earth separation plant near its Steenkampskraal mine in South Africa, about 350 km north of Capetown, and successfully carried out…
With gold equities having underperformed for more than a year despite the gold price hitting a series of new all-time highs, many analysts have predicted a fresh wave of M&A activity for the gold sector in 2012, arguing it represents one of…
Slovakia–a country roughly the size of South Carolina–has four nuclear reactors generating half the nation’s electricity needs with two more reactors planned or under construction, making Tournigan Energy’s (TVC-V) flagship Kuriskova…
Finning to buy Caterpillar units
London, U.K. — In northern England, the rolling hills and purple heather of the North Yorkshire Moors are more associated with tourism these days than with the area’s long-shut iron ore mines and blast furnaces. Where mining and industrial…
Roughly a year after it was forged out of the merger of Anatolia Minerals and Avoca Resources, Alacer Gold (ASR-T) showed the market that its operations are humming along, and that its aggressive exploration program could be set to pay near…
London, U.K. – A report by Thomson Reuters and metals analyst firm GFMS predicts the price of gold will rally to all-time highs in late 2012 before reaching the closing stages of its decade-long bull run sometime in 2013.
Investors in Gabriel Resources (GBU-T) were hit by post-holiday blues after the Romanian government announced that it would be doubling royalties on gold production in the country.
Tyndrum, a tiny village of around 160 people in Scotland’s Grampian Highlands, sits at the northern edge of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park on the side of a highway.
If you’re ever looking for expensive gold jewellery – not just any old gold jewellery, mind you, but with gold of such fine quality and such rarity as befits a royal family – you might want to consider having it made of Welsh gold.
Vancouver-based juniors Gold-Ore Resources (GOZ-T) and Astur Gold (AST-V) are joining forces to form a single, European-focused company with a producing gold mine and another gold project with upside.
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