First blast at new Kalahari manganese project

The first blast took place on last week at the new R1.5-billion Kudumane manganese mining project near Hotazel in the Northern Cape.

Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu conducted the official opening of what is the fourth new...

Vale targets China firms over mega ship standoff

Brazil's Vale , the world's largest iron-ore producer, has stopped hiring vessels from some Chinese shipping firms in retaliation for Beijing's efforts to keep the miner's huge ships out of the country, traders and industry sources said. Chinese...

First blast at new Kalahari manganese mining project

The first blast took place on Tuesday at the new R1.5-billion Kudumane manganese mining project near Hotazel in the Northern Cape. Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu conducted the official opening of what is the fourth new black-controlled...

Company Announcement: South American Silver Corp. Announces Final Closing of $16 Million Financing with Asian based High Technology Groups

South American Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that it has closed the final tranche of $9.6 million, of its $16 million private placement Offering of 10 million Units of the Company announced 16 April 2012.

Inmet completes basic engineering for Cobre Panama

Inmet Mining, the TSX-listed company developing the $6.2-billion Cobre Panama copper/gold/molybdenum project, on Monday said it had completed basic engineering and launched a financing plan to fully fund its 80% share of development costs. Minera...

Arafura signs agreement with Korean group on Nolans

Rare earths developer Arafura Resources has executed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a Korean multinational for a long-term sales agreement and the joint development of separation facilities in Australia and Korea....

Company Announcement: Memorandum of Understanding Executed Between Arafura and a Major Korean Group

Australian Rare Earths company Arafura Resources Limited is pleased to announce it has executed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with a major Korean multinational organisation to cooperate on long-term business arrangements in Rare Earths...

First tungsten from S Korea in 2013 - Woulfe

South Korea-focused Woulfe Mining would likely start production at its Sangdong tungsten/molybdenum project by mid-2013, president and CEO Brian Wesson told Mining Weekly Online on Tuesday. A recently completed feasibility study found that a...

Zandkopsdrift rare-earth element project, South Africa

Frontier Rare Earths has announced the positive results of a preliminary economic assessment at the Zandkopsdrift project.

Nautilus eyes up to $100m in funding requirements

While Nautilus Minerals, aiming to become the first deep-sea metals producer by the end of next year, still needs to raise $90-million to $100-million to fully fund the project, it has about two years to do so, CEO Steve Rogers said on Thursday....

Valve supplier benefits from mining industry

Valve and valve-related product supplier TTV Fluval reports that the mining industry has been a significant consumer of its range of Smart valve positioners since its launch, with products mostly being supplied to gold- and platinum- mining...

10/02/2012 (On-The-Air)

Trevor Manuel's planning commissions full weight behind delivering a better South African economy; Transnet getting coal to market from the emerging coalfields in the Waterberg; and Transnet has at last cracked the code for getting coal to market...