Friday, April 15, 2011

MINEWEB.COM'S TOP STORIES: Coeur says Morales Administration won't nationalize San Bartolomé mine

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TOP STORIES | Friday , 15 Apr 2011                                                     

Coeur says Morales Administration won't nationalize San Bartolomé mine

Bolivian officials says President Evo Morales will announce on May 1 that he is dismantling Bolivian mining's "privatization model" and will nationalize former state-owned mines.    Friday , 15 Apr 2011

Gold's bull run may be in its latter stages - Klapwijk

GFMS's Philip Klapwijk presented a reasonably cautious view on the likely progress in the gold price for the remainder of the year, although remained positive overall.    Thursday , 14 Apr 2011

Glencore names chair provides IPO details

The commodity trader named Hong Kong businessman, Simon Murray as chairman eight hours after it released the details of its intention to list, a delay that irked some analysts    Friday , 15 Apr 2011

Greystar shareholders clean house over Angostura gold mine project delays

A group of Greystar Resources shareholders backed Amber Capital's successful effort Thursday to oust the company's management and board of directors.    Friday , 15 Apr 2011

Medoro and Gran Colombia to merge, aim for 600K gold by 2016

In merging more or less as equals, Medoro Resources and Gran Colombia Gold have big plans to become an intermediate-sized gold producer within a few years.    Thursday , 14 Apr 2011

Gold finds support in China & India

Investors in both India and China are becoming increasingly wary of inflation and are buying gold items to hedge inflation risk.    Thursday , 14 Apr 2011

NovaGold sketches out high-grade polymetallic mine at Ambler

Though not as massive as its other projects, NovaGold calls the quality of the Ambler "rare" as it releases the first scoping study on how to mine it.    Friday , 15 Apr 2011

Demand for diamonds jumps in India

Though India has surpassed China in the demand for diamond jewellery, a slowdown in the current second quarter is expected that could see demand growth for 2011 fall to 20% from the 31% recorded in 2010    Thursday , 14 Apr 2011

Regent Pacific offer for BC Iron now back on the table

BC Iron Ltd confirmed today that the takeover by Hong Kong-based Regent Pacific Group had been re-activated after it took the earlier offer withdrawal issue to Australia's Takeovers Panel.    Friday , 15 Apr 2011

Platinum Group Metals posts wider quarterly loss

The miner, which has properties in South Africa and Canada, reported a loss of C$0.06 per share and added it was talking to banks about financing for its Western Bushveld project in SA    Friday , 15 Apr 2011

Silver stocks fall on Bolivian nationalisation fears

Shares in some N. American silver miners with operations in Bolivia fell as much as 9% on Thursday after Bolivia's government said it might rescind concessions on four mines    Friday , 15 Apr 2011

Great Panther Silver shares rise on Q1 production

Great Panther Silver said Q1 gold and silver production came in stronger than the previous comparable period, helped by recoveries from its Guanajuato mine.    Friday , 15 Apr 2011

Zimbabwe to go ahead with company takeovers- Mugabe

Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, said Thursday the country would continue with its indigenisation and empowerment policy    Thursday , 14 Apr 2011

AngloGold Ashanti to restructure BEE deal

The world's third-largest gold producer said Thursday it was restructuring its black economic empowerment deal to ensure its SA employees benefit    Thursday , 14 Apr 2011

Investors pile into commodity ETPs, focus on precious metals - BlackRock

According to data from the asset manager, most of the flows went into precious metals ETPs as investors looked for safe havens    Thursday , 14 Apr 2011

Leading Australian uranium mine remains suspended

The heavy rains that have kept much of N. Australia waterlogged for months have also resulted in the suspension of one of the world's largest uranium mines - Ranger    Thursday , 14 Apr 2011

Yesterday's Top Story: The reason silver has been rising faster than gold

Analysis of the different advance which has occurred in the silver price vis-à-vis gold in the past few months where the former has substantially outperformed the latter.    Wednesday , 13 Apr 2011

PODCASTS / RADIO                                                     

Money supply, inflation and gold's currency role - Adrian Day

A look at the staggering increase in US money supply this year and its implications for both inflation and the gold price as well as a look at the effect of 'poor man's gold' on silver

Silver, gold, and struggling currencies - Ian McAvity

A look at the hot money flowing into silver, the implications of gold acting as a mirror for currencies seemingly in a race to the bottom and China's role in the copper market

Vale's bid for Metorex: Terrence Goodlace, Metorex CEO

"This is totally unsolicited. We had no mandate to sell the company."

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