Developing mine exploration sector in sinegal hardly less, therefore government sinegal does some efforts that the investors and mine company will do investment on mining exploration in sinegal. This effort not solely for mine exploration, but investment done at mine exploration sector is expected to opens opportunity to get work for public Sinegal. Investment done […]

Federal Government has identified seven minerals for national development, inister of Mines and Steel Development, Chief Sarafa Isola, said in Abuja yesterday.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the minerals were Gold, Lead/Zinc, Barite, Bitumen, Limestone, Coal and Iron Ore. Isola said that Nigeria was well-endowed with myriad of solid minerals, but that […]

Long dominated by a small group of local players, Canada’s potash industry has become red hot, as soaring prices have begun drawing both top mining companies and small exploration firms to the vast resources buried deep under the western prairies.
Used as a key ingredient in fertilizer, demand for potash has soared along with grain prices, […]

Shenhua Energy led the day’s blue-chip gains, rising 6.9 percent to 36.35 Hong Kong dollars after Goldman Sachs added the company to its conviction buy list. The investment bank said higher oil prices could strengthen demand for coal.
Hong Kong stocks rose Monday, with gains in Chinese coal producers leading the way after Goldman Sachs upgraded […]

Chinese investors who were part of a recent visiting delegation are eyeing significant investments within Zimbabwe’s gold and platinum sectors, the Herald Business has gathered.
While no figures could be obtained, this paper understands that the Chinese are admirers of Zimbabwe’s mining industry, and were keen to pour in money.
The 22-member delegation, which consisted of mining, […]

BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP.AU) Wednesday posted higher third quarter iron ore and oil production but coal, copper, aluminum and nickel output were lower on year.
SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–South Korea’s state procurement agency has issued tenders for 6,000 metric tons of aluminum ingot and 6,000 tons of copper cathode, a senior official at the agency said Wednesday.

Davao Oriental may have one of the country’s richest mining potentials, but Gov. Corazon Malanyaon prefers to downplay it, preferring to promote agriculture instead and the ecology.
The province reportedly has rich deposits of gold, nickel, copper, chromite, and manganese, and the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said Davao […]

China became the world’s biggest producer of gold last year, overtaking South Africa which held top spot for 100 years, the independent precious metals consultancy GFMS said here on Wednesday.
Meanwhile the price of gold was on course to reach a record high of 1,100 dollars an ounce in 2008 amid global financial turbulence, the respected […]

For long-term strategic and advance bussiness in China area mining exploration, Ivanhoe Mines will selling its 42% controlling interest in Jinshan Gold Mines Inc. to China National Gold Group Corp., a government-owned mining conglomerate.
This statement from Ivanhoe chairman Robert Friedland :
This is the first step toward the formation of a long-term strategic partnership between Ivanhoe […]

Regional myopia is a widespread failing. Say “ Mexico” in Europe and the word game usually brings up “holidays”. The other side of the Atlantic it would probably be “cheap labour”. Only in Canada is “mining” Mexico’s main claim to fame. Yet Mexico is one of the oldest mining countries in the world, and it […]