MINMETALS Resources says it will use the assets recently acquired through its takeover of Anvil Mining as the starting point for a wave of acquisitions through southern Africa.
STAND by for a re-ranking of Australia's tin hopefuls. Peruvian mining giant Minsur recently put together a list of the world's top tin resources, China being No 1 with 60 per cent of the known tin.
Fortescue Metals Group today said it plans to raise $US1 billion ($947.7 million) with a high-yield bond offering to help fund the expansion of its iron ore operations in Western Australia.
For more than four decades, geologist Wolfgang Leyh has studied the broad landscape around Broken Hill in western NSW, searching for its buried riches. Too many of his colleagues, he thinks, spend their days behind computers.
Former investment bank Mark Carnegie says gold would be a good hedge Source: The Australian TO buy gold or not to buy gold? That is the question. That may depend on how optimistic you are about the world economy emerging unscathed from its current...
Over the past month they've been impossible to miss. On billboards across Hong Kong, throughout its subway network and all over its buses have been huge advertisements for little gold dragons.
Gold miner Newmont Mining is putting a final polish to the sale of its Queensland coal assets, with two overseas suitors vying for a resource estimated at more than 1.2 billion tonnes of thermal coal.
THE glow around South African coal is growing brighter for one Aussie miner. ASX-listed Universal Coal has begun talks with Chinese and Indian groups following approaches to invest in its Berenice-Cygnus coking coal project close to South Africas borde...
