President of Northland Buck Morrow said, “Our exploration drilling throughout the Pajala Shear Zone continues to demonstrate that we are in the middle of an iron ore camp where we have identified numerous mineralization occurrences in addition to our core project areas. These satellite mineralization zones have the potential to add substantial tonnages to our […]

Bellzone Holding, a unit of Bellzone Mining of Australia, plans to exploit a 1 billion metric ton iron-ore deposit in central Guinea at a cost of $4.5 billion.
The company has the cash needed to invest in the project without elaborating. Managing Director Alexandre Orlov said, “We are in talks with the Guinean government about signing […]

Cia. Vale do Rio Doce fell 27 percent this year in Sao Paulo, heading for the first annual decline since 2000. Now analysts say the world’s largest iron-ore producer is poised for its best performance in a decade.
Vale may double in the next year, more than twice the expected gains for the world’s biggest mining […]

In a shareholders’ report to be published today, the company says environmental concerns are the main reason for narrowing its search to ridge country surrounding the Liverpool Plains.
The news is scant comfort to the farmers whose land is still being targeted for coal mining against their will.
“With the effect of the subsidence from longwall coal […]

Sherritt International is delaying its plan to build a $3.3 billion coal gasification project near Edmonton due to uncertainty over carbon dioxide regulations and the products the plant could make.
Sherritt’s original plan was to file its environmental impact assessment on the proposal this year and start construction next year, with production to begin in 2012.
A […]

Tampakan is region Philipines government plans copper-gold mine exploration project. But in this region there is a policy prohibiting exploration process of mine endangering area around location of mine.
“We have a law to enforce the law, it can’t be superseded by a local ordinance,” said Environment Secretary Jose Atienza, referring to a pending resolution by […]

It’s like coal-mining,” BHP Billiton CEO Marius Kloppers says of potash-mining.
Demand for potash has surged, driving prices into orbit, after the market spent the last three decades in surplus, with the last new mine being built more than 20 years ago.
Kloppers says that, just like coal-mining, a continuous miner is installed and basic board-and-pillar mining […]

Existence of mining exploration in Alaskan condition of dilematis, governmental wishs improvement of economics from mining exploration sector, but some of publics wishs that mining exploration is not done for the shake of saving the ecosystem in Alaskan.
Voters in Alaska this week appear to have voted against a clean-water initiative that could have threatened the […]

Interfax China reported that the Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Geological Survey recently discovered an iron ore mine with proven iron ore reserves of over 1 billion tonnes in western China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, and is now in discussion with a domestic miner to transfer part of the exploration rights.
The deposit is located in Cuoqin and […]

In July 2007, a Canada-domiciled mining company was acquired by a Russian group for $5,2-billion. That company was LionOre, and it had assets in Southern Africa – an 85% share in Tati Nickel, in Botswana, and a 50% stake in Nkomati Nickel, in South Africa.
LionOre’s buyer was the giant Russian mining and metallurgical group, OJSC […]