B2Gold buys partner out of Nicaragua properties

Vancouver-based exploration firm Radius Gold found itself 20% more valuable on Monday, after it announced B2Gold Corp agreed to buy the 40% of two gold joint ventures in Nicaragua the larger peer did not already own, for $20-million in stock.

Prophecy Platinum to buy Ursa Major in all-share deal

Shares in Ursa Major Minerals nearly doubled in value on Friday, after the junior nickel producer agreed to merge with TSX-V-listed peer Prophecy Platinum. Under the proposed all-scrip deal, Ursa shareholders will get one Prophecy share for each...

Integrated mine planning gets a boost

For more than 40 years, global software and service provider Mintec has pioneered mining software while opening a worldwide network of offices to serve the industry.

Zamin studies Uruguay iron-ore project

Privately-owned Zamin Ferrous is studying an openpit iron-ore mine in Uruguay and plans to complete a feasibility study in the first half of 2011. Zamin subsidiary Minera Aratirí is studying a project near the towns of Pueblo Valentines, Cerro...

Motive Traction

We are primarily a manufacturer of Mineral Processing Equipment, such as the Wilfley Concentrating Table, the Clyde Pulp Density Scale and High Pressure, Low Volume Conveyor Belt Cleaners.

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,...

Gladiator teams up with Oroscur on Uruguay project

ASX-listed metals explorer Gladiator Resources has signed an option and joint-venture (JV) agreement with TSX-listed Orosur Mining to explore and develop that company’s Isla Cristalina Belt (ICB) project, in Uruguay. The companies would explore...

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.

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)...