Company Announcement: Press Release ABB wins $44 million gearless mill drive order in Kazakhstan

Three gearless mill drive systems to provide reliable, cost-effective ore extraction and processing for new copper mine

Gold upturn likely once Greek turmoil crystalises – WGC

An upturn in the gold price is likely once current Greek turmoil crystalises, says World Gold Council (WGC) investment MD Marcus Grubb. Current global macroeconomic concern is seen as a contributing factor to gold’s gradual fall since the end...

Company Announcement:A New Partnership Between AREVA and Mitsubishi Corporation in Mining Exploration

AREVA and Mitsubishi Corporation, through their respective subsidiaries Afmeco Mining and Exploration Pty Ltd and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd,have decided to work together in a uranium exploration program in Austral

Areva and Mitsubishi join forces on uranium

French energy major Areva and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation will jointly explore for uranium in Australia. In a statement on Tuesday, Areva said that the exploration would be conducted over a number of years, across a significant landholding...

Cameco buys uranium trader Nukem for $136m

Cameco, the biggest listed uranium producer, agreed to pay private equity firm Advent International €105-million, or $136-million, for nuclear fuel trader Nukem to deepen its involvement in marketing and secure alternative supplies, the company...

Updated expertise to be made available to industry

The third edition of the reference book ‘Blasthole Drilling in Open Pit Mining’, which serves as a guide to mining engineers in the opencast mining industry, will be released in September this year, mining services company Atlas Copco reports.

Glencore sees healthy global demand for commodities

Glencore reported "robust" trading in the first quarter, reassuring investors with its view of broadly healthy demand for the commodities it mines, farms and drills, in a week when renewed fears over Europe's debt crisis dominate markets. The...

Uranium One profit falls on lower uranium price

Uranium One on Monday reported a drop in quarterly profit as lower realized uranium prices outweighed higher sales volumes. Canada's No 2 uranium producer's profit was $4.5-million, or nil a share, in the quarter ended March 31. That compared...

Miner ENRC mulls carving off international assets

ENRC, one of the largest London-listed mining groups, is considering options to boost its value that include a possible split of its international arm, comprising its mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, from its core Kazakh assets....

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Tanzania uranium exploration drilling confirms mineralisation at depth

AIM-listed uranium explorer Uranium Resources’ ongoing drilling programme at its 100%-owned Mtonya project, in south-west Tanzania, continues to confirm the presence of stacked roll-front mineralisation at depth.

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