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Bye, bye penny

The Royal Canadian Mint will stop producing pennies this fall, announced Finance Minister Jim Flaherty during his budget speech on Thursday.

Michael Allan McCrae | March 29, 2012 | 9:07 pm

Zijin Mining looking to Asia for more gold, copper assets

Chinese copper-gold giant Zijin Mining Group is on the move again with plans for more acquisitions.

Andrew Topf | March 29, 2012 | 6:54 pm

World’s largest money manager losing confidence in BHP Billiton

"They need to clearly indicate to the market what their strategy around Olympic Dam is, around shale gas, all of these things, to return confidence that they're not spending huge amounts of capex for very low returns."

Frik Els | March 29, 2012 | 1:00 pm

“Underground city” copper mine in Minnesota inches forward

A proposal for a large underground copper mine in Minnesota reached a milestone last week.

Andrew Topf | March 29, 2012 | 5:43 am

Mitsubishi pays $81m for 25% stake in PGM mine

Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corp will pay $81.25 million to acquire a 25% ownership in the Marathon PGM and copper project owned by Stillwater Mining.

MINING.com Editor | March 28, 2012 | 9:56 pm

Baja slides 5% after Boleo update tells of escalating fuel, material and labour costs

Baja Mining (TSX:BAJ) shed 5% on Wednesday on higher than usual trading volumes, after releasing an update on its Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc project in Mexico.

Frik Els | March 28, 2012 | 6:19 pm

Barrick, Goldcorp holding breath as Canadian court poised to decide El Morro ownership

The two largest gold companies are bracing for a Canadian court's decision on who owns the massive El Morro copper-gold deposit in Chile.

Andrew Topf | March 28, 2012 | 5:41 am

BHP’s Marius Kloppers makes 30 best CEOs in the world list (again)

Why? For mining the stuff for making China.

Frik Els | March 27, 2012 | 10:44 pm

You want ice with that? Centerra dives 18% after saying waste and ice will cut Kumtor production by 200,000 oz

Centerra Gold said labour strikes last month worsened the extent of the ice and waste flows and that it now can't access the high grade zone at its massive mine in Kyrgyzstan.

Frik Els | March 27, 2012 | 6:18 pm

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