US company begins tests on world’s largest titanium deposit

Privately owned mining company CIC Resources is making progress in delineating its resource at its Alto Paraná project, following its announcement last year of the discovery of what may be the world’s largest titanium deposit, in Paraguay, and...

Company Announcement: Update on UrAmerica Limited

The Board of URU Metals is pleased to provide an update on the Company's investment UrAmerica, the private exploration company with large-scale uranium exploration permits in Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia.

Uranium Energy seals Paraguay deal

New York-listed Uranium Energy Corp said on Monday it has completed the purchase of uranium properties in Paraguay it announced May 12. The company paid about $720 000 in shares, as well as a 1,5% royalty to buy the 247 000-acre prospecting...

Uranium Energy buys Paraguay property

New York-listed Uranium Energy Corp has agreed to buy a Paraguayan uranium deposit for about $720 000 in shares, as well as a 1,5% royalty, the company said on Thursday. Uranium Energy said it aimed to start exploration at the Coronel Oviedo...

Titanium discovery focuses attention on long-neglected Paraguay

Paraguay is hoping that the recent announcement of a major titanium discovery in the country’s Alto Parana department (roughly equivalent to a South African province), which borders Brazil, will greatly stimulate minerals and metals exploration...

Latin American leaders back mining

Leaders from countries belonging to the Mercosurtrade bloc last week declared a mining key sector for the economic and social development of the region. Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva,...

Nuclear energy revival ensuring future of uranium mining

World energy demand is growing. The International Energy Agency predicts that global energy requirements will increase by 40% by 2030. No less than 80% of this increase in demand will come from emerging and developing countries. Fossil fuel...

Nuclear energy revival ensuring future of uranium mining

Cover story on the worldwide revival of civil nuclear energy, which is enjoying major international political support, and its effects on uranium mining

South African mining groups doing well in South America

South America is a continent whose richness in natural resources became legendary through myths such as El Dorado or the Emerald Mountain. Neither of these ever existed, of course, but today the continent produces antimony, bauxite, coal, cobalt,...

South African mining groups doing well in South America

South America is a continent whose richness in natural resources became legendary through myths such as El Dorado or the Emerald Mountain.

Rio Tinto gets approval to sell Brazil iron-ore mine to Vale

The Brazilian National Defence Council has approved the pending sale of diversified miner Rio Tinto’s Corumbá mine to iron-ore giant Vale. In January, Rio Tinto entered into an agreement with Vale to sell its Corumbá iron-ore mine and the...

Argentina mining investment rises to record

Investment in Argentina’s mining sector have risen to their highest levels so far this year, despite the economic downturn and stirrings of local opposition to the sector. The country has received 7,35-billion Argentine pesos (Some 1,9-billion)...