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| | | | | | | TOP STORIES | Friday , 22 Jun 2012 | | 2012 has been a challenging year for the mining industry, felt by executives in resources companies of all sizes, a survey by a Vancouver-based mining recruitment group has revealed. Friday , 22 Jun 2012 | | Despite reports saying Iamgold is dropping its Quimsacocha project, the group has actually found a partner for the project in INV Metals Friday , 22 Jun 2012 | | Ten days after announcing it was closing its Marikana operation, the platinum miner announced it has put Everest on care and maintenance - what can investors expect going forward? Thursday , 21 Jun 2012 | | A perfect storm of low natural gas prices, new emission regulations and weak electrical demand has hit U.S. coal producers hard, forcing Arch to resort to production cuts, write-downs and layoffs. Friday , 22 Jun 2012 | | Peru's president said Thursday that the gold miner had finally identified with the government's proposal for environmental mitigation plans at its $4.8bn Conga gold project in the county. Friday , 22 Jun 2012 | | According to the Mongolian mine's operator, it has been working for a couple of years on, what it calls, "the world's largest ever project finance raising for the industry" and hopes to have it done within 6 months Friday , 22 Jun 2012 | | Activist charity links Radius Gold to violence on its website, but Radius denies such a connection and calls for peace near its Tambor project in Guatemala. Thursday , 21 Jun 2012 | | Volatile prices and a poor global economic outlook have promted the South Korean steel maker and other steel mills to try for a return to the age old system and, it seems, majors like Vale may be willing to negotiate. Friday , 22 Jun 2012 | | The Association of British Insurers questioned the group's plan to pay large sums of money to valuable employees to ensure they stay on at the group post its merger with Glencore. Friday , 22 Jun 2012 | | The transnational miner says the money will go to the establishment of a replacement mining area at the Appin Mine in Australia's New South Wales state. Friday , 22 Jun 2012 | | One of the main conditions stipulated by the B.R.I.C.S nations before contributing to the IMF's funding to help shore up the global economy was more power within the institution, Julian Phillips looks at what this could mean Friday , 22 Jun 2012 | | If the current natural resources market is like a strapless bra, then the uranium sector is looking remarkably like a strip club writes Sara Patterson Thursday , 21 Jun 2012 | | The latest in a series of setbacks involves Swiss-based Xstrata, which is considering exiting the country and selling its stake in the Frieda River copper project. Thursday , 21 Jun 2012 | | The U.S. Fed has effectively maintained the status quo with a continuation of Operation Twist, but no additional stimulus for now. Gold moved down as a result, but then began to recover before slipping again overnight. Thursday , 21 Jun 2012 | | For the first time in 10 years, Puru Saxena is bullish on US equities and has no exposure to gold and silver, he tells Mineweb why. | | Standard Chartered's Judy Zhu expects copper to trade in a relatively tight range in the short term with a hope of some rebound going into Q4. | | "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. | | |
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