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URANIUM

U3O8 Corp outlines Argentina strategy

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Canada-based uranium project developer U3O8 Corp this week outlined its strategy for Argentina, saying it believed the Laguna Salada deposit was a potential low-cost, near-term producer while setting up a pipeline of projects for sequential...
17th May 2013
 
 
FINANCING

Allied Nevada Gold closes $150m financing

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US miner Allied Nevada Gold on Friday said it had closed a bought deal equity financing with a syndicate of underwriters for $150.5-million. Allied Nevada issued 14-million shares at a price of $10.75 apiece. The syndicate of underwriters was led...
17th May 2013
 
 
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

Orbite settles dispute with contractor, shares slide

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French media this week reported alumina process innovator Orbite Aluminae this week settled a dispute with contractor Gastier Montreal, which claimed $16-million for unpaid work. Gastier obtained a legal mortgage on the new Orbite plant, which...
17th May 2013
 
 
COPPER

Copper Mountain production grinds to halt on transformer failure

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Vancouver-based Copper Mountain Mining on Thursday said production ground to a halt after one of two transformers powering the semi-autogenous (SAG) mills had failed. Copper Mountain said it expected production to restart on Saturday, after a...
17th May 2013
 
 
RARE EARTHS

Critical alternative rare earths sources still not secured since China’s 2010 export restrictions

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Following the global economic downturn of 2008/9 and a series of events and press reports in 2010 that coined what some referred to as the “rare-earths crisis”, there has been a glut of new rare earths projects starting out, yet few have...
17th May 2013
 
 
COPPER-MOLY-GOLD

Marengo delays FS results, looks for new power partner

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ASX- and TSX-listed Marengo Mining has been forced to consider alternate sources of power for its proposed Yandera copper/molybdenum/gold project, in Papua New Guinea, after the preferred third-party supplier decided to withdraw from the supply...
17th May 2013
 
 
GOLD

Didipio reaches commercial production

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Dual listed miner OceanaGold has declared commercial production at its Didipio mine, in the Philippines, from April 1. “We are extremely pleased to formally announce the declaration of commercial production at Didipio with an effective date of...
17th May 2013
 
 
BC EXPORTS

BC expected to top export growth charts in 2 yrs, coal hit hard

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Back-to-back double-digit increases will vault British Columbia's (BC’s) international exports to the top of the growth charts over the next two years, despite the expectation that coal exports will decline by 12% in 2013, Export Development...
17th May 2013
 
 
FINANCING

St Augustine Gold and Copper announces $11m private placement

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Toronto-listed St Augustine Gold and Copper, which is developing the King-King copper/gold project, in the Philippines, on Thursday announced a private placement with Queensberry Mining and Development for $11-million. The private placement saw...
17th May 2013
 
 
RARE EARTHS

Critical alternative rare earths sources still not secured since China’s 2010 export restrictions

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Following the global economic downturn of 2008/09 and a series of events and press reports in 2010 that coined what some referred to as the “rare-earth crisis,” there has been a glut of new rare earths projects starting out, yet few have...
17th May 2013
 
 
ALUMINIUM

Alcoa curtails Quebec production capacity, defers expansion

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US-based aluminium producer Alcoa on Thursday said it would shutter two potlines with a combined capacity of about 105 000 t and push back construction of a new potline at its Baie-Comeau smelter, in Quebec, as part of a revised modernisation plan...
16th May 2013
 
 
COAL

Consol Energy gets nod to restart production from Pennsylvania mine

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US fossil-fuels producer Consol Energy on Thursday announced it had received regulatory approval to resume operations at the Blacksville No 2 mine, in Pennsylvania, which was evacuated on March 12, when smoke was detected exiting the Orndoff...
16th May 2013
 
 
 
 
 
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