Coal imports in September rose 51% from a year ago period to 2.65 million tonnes, with the country deliberating importing large quantities of the fuel.
Luna Gold is looking at expansion plans at its Aurizona mine in Brazil after it put together a resource estimate that increased gold resources by some 250%.
The gold price climbed on Friday, but the uncertainty around the euro zone's ability to resolve the two-year-old debt crisis remains a concern in the market.
It was just over two and a half years ago that NovaGold and equal partner Barrick Gold put out a feasibility study on the massive Donlin Creek gold project in Alaska.
Coeur d'Alene Mines, a major silver miner in the U.S., said it had failed to pay maintenance fees on claims covering part of its Rochester silver-gold property, which Rye Patch Gold now says it controls.
Because of higher gold grades, a new scoping study of the Brucejack project will be "much more robust," Robert Quartermain, Pretium Resources president and CEO, told Mineweb in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
Molycorp, Daido Steel, and Mitsubishi have formed a joint venture to manufacture and sell next-generation neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) permanent rare earth magnets, producing greater performance with less reliance on dysprosium.
Speculative positions on rising commodity prices fell to their lowest since July 2009 on concerns that Europe's debt crisis will crimp demand Speculators decreased wagers on rising commodity prices to the lowest since July 2009 amid concern that Europe's
Global miner, BHP Billiton, expects steel output in China to continue at current rates, below historical highs, for some time. "When we talk to our Chinese customers there is not a sentiment that the operating rate in the steel industry will improve or
Talga Gold Limited (ASX: TLG) reports that final one metre assay results have been received from a 35-hole Reserve Circulation (RC) drilling exploration program at the Company's 100% owned Talga Talga project in Western Australia's Pilbara region.
