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| | | | | | | TOP STORIES | Friday , 15 Jun 2012 | | Cash sources from bumper years on financing markets, now past, have dwindled, forcing juniors to face the harsh reality of equity financing. Friday , 15 Jun 2012 | | While the world's mining sector faces tough times ahead, the absolute decline will not be as severe as it was during the global financial crisis, S&P forecasts. Friday , 15 Jun 2012 | | We expect the impact of hedging/de-hedging in 2012 to continue to be on the periphery, rather than an important price driver or support, say Société Générale and Thomson Reuters GFMS. Friday , 15 Jun 2012 | | Persistent fears over the euro zone and a gloomy global economic outlook attracts safe haven buying in India; gold ETFs and e-gold surge higher. Thursday , 14 Jun 2012 | | Despite the metals for the Olympic medals being donated by Rio Tinto for free, environmentalists, unions still see the occasion as yet another opportunity for publicly castigating the mega miner. Thursday , 14 Jun 2012 | | A new independent technical report from AMEC confirms the vast tonnages and economic grades in the Duluth Metals/Antofagasta Twin Metals base and precious metals project in Minnesota. Thursday , 14 Jun 2012 | | Castlemaine MD, Matt Gill, says a revised Ballarat mine plan is now well underway, with high-grade ore continuing to be sourced from the Mako Lode in the Llanberris block. Thursday , 14 Jun 2012 | | The Aditya Birla group is looking to buy the rights to between 20% and 40% of the coal produced by Drummond's Colombian coal mines to feed its $5 billion aluminium growth programme. Thursday , 14 Jun 2012 | | The world's largest gold miner earned $514.98 for every dollar it paid to Aaron Regent for 2011, which was more than any of his peers in Canada and the United States. Friday , 15 Jun 2012 | | For the past four years, the state has been working on a draft bill that will rewrite the country's 50-year-old mining code and has stopped granting new mining claims in the interim. Friday , 15 Jun 2012 | | West African and Central African States have recently come together, through international organisations, to initiate regional processes to reconcile and integrate their mining legislation with mixed results. Thursday , 14 Jun 2012 | | Newmont Nusa Tenggara has been granted clearance to export copper ore concentrate, after the government imposed new rules on mineral exports. Friday , 15 Jun 2012 | | Head of Xstrata Copper Charlie Sartain told reporters in Santiago Thursday that the global copper market remains intact and reckons there's still strong demand for copper in China. Friday , 15 Jun 2012 | | Most of the projected increase in iron ore demand is expected to come from China but at best analysts are looking at the prospect of flat, at best, steel consumption from the region. Friday , 15 Jun 2012 | | Two sources with direct knowledge of the deal say Nathan Tinkler is looking to secure at least $2.5 billion in debt from banks to finance his proposed takeover of Whitehaven Coal. Thursday , 14 Jun 2012 | | Residents of Indonesia's resource-rich Papua island were up in arms Thursday after an independence activist was shot and killed by security forces while resisting arrest. Thursday , 14 Jun 2012 | | According to Barclays Capital, the short term outlook remains positive for commodities as the recent decline has been overdone. Wednesday , 13 Jun 2012 | | "All these things have been pushing gold up and down, and up and down but I think ultimately the markets are becoming more pro-gold." | | Co-chair of Osler Hoskin & Harcourt's Mining Group, David Hanick, looks at some of the emerging trends in the mining M&A space. | | Investec Asset Management, investment strategist, Michael Power believes that the balance of economic power is shifting from the west to the rest and taking commodities with it. | | The Gartman Letter author, Dennis Gartman, looks at why he doesn't see gold as a safe harbour and how he sees the global political mess unfolding over the next few months. | | |
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