Canadian miners start 2019 off on the right foot amid mega-deals

Glencore International is in talks with Xstrata to merge in a deal that would create a $80 billion rival to BHP Billiton, Vale, Rio Tinto and China's Shenhua. Here's a wrap-up of what people are saying about the birth of the globe's first vertically integrated resource giant.

Imperial Metals Corporation (TSX:III) reports a tonnage increase of 103% in the Measured and Indicated Resource at its Red Chris copper/gold deposit. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 2, 2012) - Imperial Metals Corporation (TSX:III) reports a tonnage increase of 103% in the Measured and Indicated Resource at its Red Chris copper/gold deposit. The 2012 Technical Report(1) (...

Times of Zambia reports that the Zambian government is planning to increase its share of mining firms from 20% to 35% but is not planning a wholesale nationalization.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 30, 2012) - Robert Friedland, Chairman, and Peter Reeve, Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Australia Limited (TSX:IVA)(ASX:IVA), are pleased to announce the appointment of UBS Investment Bank to as...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 30, 2012) - First Quantum Minerals Ltd. ("First Quantum" or the "Company" or "FQM") (TSX:FM)(LSE:FQM) is pleased to announce the signing of a US$1 billion senior term and revolving facilities...

Osisko Mining on Monday said the company's Famatina project in La Rioja, Argentina, remains stalled almost a month after protesters began blockading the site and marched on the governor's office and in the capital Buenos Aires, sending its stock down 3%

The native group opposing the Prosperity Mine in northern British Columbia has little faith in the just-launched federal environmental review of the project, CTV News reports.

Photographer Martin Foskett spliced together a video of mining equipment accidents. Apart from the maudlin and rather depressing soundtrack, the video makes for an interesting diversion and a reminder that when thing go wrong with mining equipment, they really go wrong.

Tiny Oman, the Sultanate perched on the southeast tip of the Arabian peninsula, is setting up for a quantum leap in mining, the Oman Daily Observer reports in an article published Saturday.