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.

South African companies pursuing ironclad Canadian opportunities

Two South African companies are pursuing iron opportunities in Canada, the one the JSE-listed Petmin and the other the lesser known unlisted Iron Mineral Beneficiation Services (IMBS), which got under way with the help of initial private equity...

Petmin mulling TSX listing for low-cost pig iron venture

JSE and Aim-listed steel-feed mining company Petmin is targeting the production of the lowest cost pig iron “on the planet” at its jointly controlled North Atlantic Iron Corporation (NAIC) iron sands project in Canada's Labrador province....

Coal miner seeks partners for anthracite product

Australia-based coal developer ZYL is seeking potential offtake partners for the anticipated anthracite product from its proposed 1.5-million-ton-a-year Mbila project, in South Africa.

China fails to divert iron-ore buys from Australia, Brazil

China diversified its spot iron ore buying away from India in 2011, largely in favour of South Africa, but failed to reduce its dependence on term purchases from top suppliers Australia and Brazil, customs data showed on Saturday. Chinese...

Coal developer ZYL attracts interest from potential buyers

Shares in ASX-listed ZYL jumped nearly 30% on Wednesday, as the South Africa-focused coal developer announced that it had received two unsolicited expressions of interest to either partner or acquire ZYL. ZYL appointed Macquarie Bank as a...

RCR sees buying opportunities emerging in uranium

While uranium traders remain cautious going into the first half of 2012, buying opportunities continued to emerge in the uranium sector, Sydney-based Resource Capital Research (RCR) said on Monday. RCR noted that the dynamics driving the...

Iron-ore junior signs on Larry King to raise recognition

Black Iron, a Canadian junior developing an iron-ore project in the Ukraine, on Monday announced a novel way to raise its profile – hiring recently retired “King of Talk” Larry King. The news did little for the TSX-listed company’s stock,...

Ukraine project could produce 7.3Mt/y: Black Iron

Shares in Black Iron, backed by Toronto’s Forbes & Manhattan, build on last week’s gains on Monday, after the company published the results of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its flagship project in the Ukraine, sketching a...

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