Glencore hopes for FTSE fillip to aid Xstrata deal

Glencore's bruised stock could get a boost after a lock-up on a large slice of employees' shares expires, in a welcome lift for the commodities trader as its $30-billion bid for miner Xstrata nears the final stages. The release on Thursday of...

Tanzania 2011 gold production up 13%

Tanzania's gold production rose to 40.4 t in 2011 from 35.6 t a year ago after mining companies invested in higher output due to cash in on the rising price of the precious metal, its central bank said on Tuesday. The east African state, Africa's...

Mexico gold output seen topping 100 t/y by ’17 on hefty new discoveries

Better known as the world’s biggest silver producer, Mexico may soon deliver the next ‘mega’ gold deposits, with explorers Newstrike Capital and Westridge Resources reporting significant resources at their targets. The North American state...

Miners will battle resource grabs - Glencore

Mining companies will fight growing resource nationalism and could pull out of countries where governments are demanding too large a share of the pie, commodities giant Glencore warned on Friday, a day after Argentina nationalised the country's...

Company Announcement: Chance to Acquire Specialised Valve Engineering business

CH Valves was established by Helmut Feldmann, after he emigrated from Switzerland, and has developed into a most lucrative business and Brand in its specialised niche manufacturing field of a valve product range of all sizes and applications.

Products do their bit in Quebec

Diamond drill bits from global mineral exploration company Boart Longyear are having a positive impact on iron-ore drilling operations in the remote area of Schefferville in northern Quebec, Canada.

Can former UraMin team pull it off again with Congo potash?

While Elemental Minerals is sitting on what Northern Securities analyst Fadi Benjamin calls “the best potash project in Africa...hands down”, the biggest challenge facing the company is raising the $1.7-billion required to bring its Sintoukola...

Company Announcement: Green Building Conference 25 & 26 July 2012

alive2green are pleased to announce that their Sixth Annual Green Building Conference and Exhibition will be hosted at the Sandton Convention Centre on 25 and 26 July 2012 forming part of Sustainability Week 2012.

Wall St commodity talent wars: Return of the merchants

When it comes to hiring top commodity traders, what goes around comes around. Wall Street, after years of poaching the best and brightest from specialized commodity firms, is losing the war to keep the essential traders who know how to arbitrage...

Assay labs race to boost capacity as exploration burgeons

Surging metals prices over the last two years have brought about a boom in exploration, putting pressure on drill rig suppliers and the mineral laboratories that test the core samples with companies having to wait longer than six months for assay...

Tasiast mine, Mauritania

An openpit mine situated in Mauritania.

Investment in copper mining to be driven by health metal’s benefits

New study results released by the Medical University of South Carolina (Musa) on the antimicrobial properties of copper and its alloys, will have an unprecedented effect on the copper-mining industry in sub-Saharan Africa, says the Copper...