Monday, October 31, 2011

MINEWEB.COM'S TOP STORIES: Grupo Mexico withdraws proposed Asarco/Southern Copper combination

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TOP STORIES | Monday , 31 Oct 2011                                                     

Grupo Mexico withdraws proposed Asarco/Southern Copper combination

Grupo Mexico reported increased copper production as lower moly, silver, gold and zinc production during the first nine months of this year.    Monday , 31 Oct 2011

CIBC lowers silver price guidance, downgrades PanAm, Minefinders

CIBC will maintain "a positive disposition to silver prices," but is skeptical as to why mining companies' cash flows have not kept pace with silver price movements.    Monday , 31 Oct 2011

Congo gold - less risky than you may think - Kevin Puil

Investment in the DRC is much less risky than a few years ago. Kevin Puil of Malcolm H. Gissen & Associates and the Encompass Fund, recently traveled to the Congo and liked what he saw. Interview with The Gold Report.    Saturday , 29 Oct 2011

Harmony Gold's Q3 earnings beat expectations on bullion's record run

The gold miner posted a more than three-fold increase in quarterly earnings on Monday, beating expectations on the back of bullion's record run.    Monday , 31 Oct 2011

Ethos gold anomaly measures up to Kinross, Kaminak in Yukon's White Gold district

It seems a bit of a waiting game is at play in the Yukon's White Gold district as juniors anticipate the eyes Kaminak may draw once it releases its first resource for the Coffee gold project.    Friday , 28 Oct 2011

BHP Australia coal miners to stage more work stoppages on Friday - union

Union workers at four BHP Billiton coking coal mines in Australia will stage more work stoppages on Friday as part of a long-running industrial action over job security and better wages.    Monday , 31 Oct 2011

JP Morgan joins China's main precious metals bourse

The China unit of investment bank JP Morgan has become the eighth foreign financial institute to gain entry to China's main precious metals bourse, the Shanghai Gold Exchange.    Monday , 31 Oct 2011

Sudan issues 50 more gold exploration licenses

Sudan's govt. has issued 50 licenses to 73 firms to explore gold and other minerals, as it tries to grow its small gold production to compensate for the loss of most of its oil reserves to newly independent South Sudan.    Monday , 31 Oct 2011

Splitting rights, a practical fix to the sterilisation of South African minerals

South Africa's department of mineral resources is looking at ways to change existing regulations in a bid to make it easier to mine marginal ore bodies, especially contiguous ones    Monday , 31 Oct 2011

Costless, limitless, meaningless money ever since the gold standard demise

Once-upon-a-time, a debt default wasn't known as "forgiveness"...Since Nixon cut the dollar link to gold we've seen a succession of ever bigger credit bubbles.    Sunday , 30 Oct 2011

Andean American Gold halts Peru mine feasibility study on massive cost escalation

A slew of factors have led to Andean American's decision to stop work on an optimized feasibility study for its Invicta project in Peru, with ballooning projected costs chief among them.    Friday , 28 Oct 2011

Govt. intercedes in dispute over Newmont/ Buenaventura's huge new Peruvian gold mine

In bid to avert further conflict over Newmont and Buenaventura's planned $4.8 billion Minas Conga gold mine, Peruvian government brokering talks between miner and dissenters    Friday , 28 Oct 2011

DRC's copper production surge hampered by infastructure constraints

The country's ambitious plans to expand its copper output to match that of Africa's largest copper producer Zambia falters as a deal with Chinese infrastructure firms has yet to fall into place.    Friday , 28 Oct 2011

Freeport Indonesia mine wage talks deadlocked - union

Wage talks between U.S. miner Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold and the union acting on behalf of its striking Grasberg mineworkers in Indonesia have not yielded positive results after a week of negotiations, the union said Friday.    Friday , 28 Oct 2011

Eurozone fix so far so good, but gold positive doubts remain

Full details of the Eurozone rescue package may not be known for some weeks yet as some key negotiations continue, but some doubts remain maintaining a safe haven interest in gold.    Friday , 28 Oct 2011

Weekend's Top Story: Gold expected to continue to advance this year and next - but beware H2 2013

Research shows that over the next 12 - 15 months fundamentals, sentiment and an optimistic market for gold will continue to support gold prices, but the second half of 2013 remains a concern in this respect.    Friday , 28 Oct 2011

PODCASTS / RADIO                                                     

Gold Bullion, confidence and the European crisis - Julian Phillips

Goldforecaster founder, Julian Phillips looks at the likely implications of the ongoing European crisis on the gold market and the longer term outlook for the yellow metal

Petmin's plans through the cycle - Ian Cockerill

Petmin's, executive chairman, Ian Cockerill looks at the reasons behind the diversified mining group's recent acquisitions given the macro-economic environment facing miners

The state of South African mining - Adrian Macartney

Ernst & Young's Africa transactions head, Adrian Macartney, looks at some of the major challenges facing the South African mining sector.

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