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| | | | | | | TOP STORIES | Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | With things getting back to normal at Grasberg, FCX CEO Richard Adkerson says he believes the global outlook for copper is good as inventories have dropped globally and markets remain relatively tight. Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | Mongolia's biggest political party has formed a coalition with fringe parties which want to limit foreign mining investment in order to gain parliamentary majority. Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | During the first half of this year, 19 people died in work-related accidents at the nation's mines - the second lowest number ever recorded in a six-month period MSHA reports. Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | Cynthia Carroll, CEO of Anglo American, has asked Chris Griffith to return to the platinum operation where he spent 18 years before leaving in May 2008 to run Kumba Iron Ore Ltd. Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | Chilean miner Codelco is negotiating with Ecuador for the Junin deposit which contains enough copper and molybdenum to rival the biggest mines in both Chile and Peru, an industry group says. Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | The diamond miner said Friday its profit before finance charges and taxation for the first half totalled $502 million, from $1.02 billion reaped the first six months of 2011. Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | The regulator asked for more feedback from the U.S. bank that has pushed to launch the fund for almost two years and from copper fabricators and Red Kite, who have opposed the product. Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | Dominant South African workers union NUM said Thursday it was preparing to go on strike at the Nkomati nickel mine, a JV owned by African Rainbow Minerals and Russia's Norilsk. Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | Gold miner Avocet Mining's CEO, Brett Richards, has stepped down and joins a growing list of top executives who have resigned in the face of difficult times in the gold mining and exploration sector. Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | Avocet Mining is the latest gold miner to appoint a new leader to try and improve its performance and strategy looking forward. Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | If gold is to play a part in any future financial system it has to become acceptable to governments, central banks and commercial banks alike. This process appears already to be under way. Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | All markets are manipulated! However how do you define the line between manipulation (bad?) and intervention (acceptable?) - particularly with respect to the gold and silver markets? Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | Just how transparent are the world's biggest miners when it comes to payments to foreign governments - and how much of this do local communities see? Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | A major non-mining Union in Queensland, Australia has said that to challenge the country's new mining tax in court is a waste of taxpayer's money which could be spent elsewhere. Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | Underperformance right now in junior uranium miners is transient and nuclear power is here to stay according to nuclear sector investment specialist Jeb Handwerger. Energy Report interview. Friday , 20 Jul 2012 | | Magnesium co-products add another facet to Karnalyte's Wynyard potash project in Saskatchewan. Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | Canadian exploration junior, Atico Mining, is off to a good start in its underground drill program at El Roble in Colombia, hitting two 40-metre intercepts with high-grade copper and gold. Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | An structural overhaul and some sharp costs reductions enabled Sandvik to beat forecasts and come up with record Q2 profits - but wary on Q3. Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | A Reuters poll showed Thursday India's gold imports could fall by a third in the next 3 months as prices inflated by a weak rupee and a 4% import duty encourage traders to use scrap. Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | The mining giant announced Thursday it was cutting an unspecified number of jobs at its Clermont coal mine as it struggles weak thermal coal prices. Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | Slower economic growth in the country has got the Indian government eager to raise $5.4 billion mainly from resource sector privatisation sales, to bridge the gap in the fiscal budget, but the programme has seen delays and deferments. Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | Citing interference in Central Bank independence, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke calls Rep. Ron Paul's "Audit the Fed" bill a "nightmare scenario". Thursday , 19 Jul 2012 | | Drilling results from three separate gold projects rolled in Wednesday morning, catapulting the share prices of their respective junior owners. Wednesday , 18 Jul 2012 | | A look at the latest edition of the Erste Group's 'In gold we trust' report and some of the big factors at work within the gold market. | | A look at whether or not the commodities supercycle is coming to an end and what it means for the industrial commodities sector. | | Adrian Day looks at the major factors affecting gold over the last few months and what the prospects are for gold stocks. | | For Oreninc's Benjamin Cox, in the current environment, especially this summer, miners shouldn't be financing a nickel more than they have to. | | |
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