According to the Indonesian unit of the U.S. miner, several days of protests at its Batu Hijau copper-gold mine had had no significant impact on production Local authorities have dispersed the protesters who since Aug. 2 had been blocking access and

Comments yesterday from the president of the ECB on the spreading Eurozone debt crisis precipitated a general global stock market crash with the mining sector and metals amongst the major fallers.

The news and information service announced Friday it had acquired UK-based, private metals analysis firm GFMS for an undisclosed sum in a bid to expand its metals information offerings News and information company Thomson Reuters Corp.

Yamana Gold reported record net earnings, up 178%, and record adjusted earnings, up 122%, for the second quarter of this year.

Newcrest Mining suspended work at its Gosowong gold mine in Indonesia on Thursday after it said nine people, mostly mine workers or contractors, were killed when a helicopter crashed en route to the mine.

Investors who were nervous about the looming debt ceiling showdown poured $3.5 billion in July into exchange-traded funds that own gold, according to fund tracking website IndexUniverse.com. The biggest gold ETF, the $65 billion SPDR Gold Trust managed by State Street, added $2.9 billion of net inflow, IndexUniverse said in its monthly report. BlackRock's $8 billion iShares Gold Trust took in $632 million.

Iamgold announced that a 36-hour work stoppage of the mill at the Company's Rosebel Gold Mine in Suriname ended Wednesday morning when agreement was reached with regard to a possible change in shift scheduling. The Company and union have committed to continue to meet, starting immediately, to resolve all outstanding issues. Rosebel has resumed operation and is on target to meet its 2011 production guidance of between 360,000 and 380,000 ounces of gold.

Disagreements over a bonus scuttled a potential labor deal at the world's biggest copper mine, Chile's Escondida, union leaders said on Friday, the eighth day of a strike that has fed worries about global supplies of the metal.

Highlights include: Progressing five projects in two Australian states - Queensland and South Australia. Actively reviewing opportunities to add to the Company's current project portfolio. Processing of gravity data for Punt Hill copper-gold project in

Junction Dam uranium project (SA)  Phase 3 drilling program commenced  Significant uranium mineralisation expansion potential identified at the Bridget prospect immediately adjacent to the Saffron prospect.  Marmota Energy set to increase its

Latest RC drilling on the Sulieman Creek Prospect has extended the uranium-vanadium mineralisation from the previous drilling program.

Field season commences on Nevada gold and copper targets Surface geological, geochemical and geophysical surveys completed at Excelsior Drilling commenced at Excelsior Drilling scheduled for Bartlett Cu-Au target