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China’s Minmetals extends offer for Anvil to Dec 9

China's Minmetals Resources Ltd has extended its $1.3 billion takeover offer for Africa-focused copper miner Anvil Mining Ltd by two weeks to Dec. 9. This comes after Anvil warned last month that the offer may not be completed if the company failed to agree with its partner, state-owned Democratic Republic of Congo miner La Generale des Carriere et des Mines Sarl (Gecamines), on contractual arrangements.
Reuters | November 23, 2011 | 11:35 pm

BHP Billiton Finance sells $3 billion notes

Nov 16 (Reuters) - BHP Billiton Finance Ltd on Wednesday sold $3 billion of three-part notes, said IFR, a Thomson Reuters service. Barclays Capital and J.P. Morgan were the joint bookrunning managers for the sale. BORROWER: BHP BILLITON FINANCE LTD...
Reuters | November 16, 2011 | 10:27 pm

Goldcorp gets construction approval for Eleonore

Goldcorp said on Monday that the Quebec government has given the green light to its Eleonore project, allowing Canada's second largest gold producer to start full construction at the mine in Northern Quebec. The project, which is located in the James Bay region of Quebec, is expected to boost Goldcorp's output by 600,000 ounces of gold a year, with cash costs under $400 per ounce.
Reuters | November 14, 2011 | 7:08 pm

Copper price surges $164/tonne on rare good news from Europe

Reuters reported that copper surged almost 2% bolstered by a weaker dollar, the better political situation in Italy and a pickup in Chinese bank lending. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) closed at $7,639 a tonne, about 2 percent up from a last bid at $7,475 on Thursday and the first move up this week.
Reuters | November 11, 2011 | 10:30 pm

Glencore picks off 15% stake in Optimum Coal Holdings

Global commodities trader Glencore (LON:GLEN) is making inroads into South African coal. Reuters reports that Glencore has signed a deal to buy energy trader Mercuria's 15 percent stake in South Africa's Optimum Coal Holdings (OCH) in its drive to acquire the whole company worth around $1 billion, sources close to the agreement said. Completing the Optimum acquisition would make Glencore South Africa's fourth-largest coal exporter, without including Xstrata's tonnage, for which it provides advisory services.
Reuters | November 10, 2011 | 10:40 pm

Australian iron ore magnate Forrest returns to nickel

Reuters Africa reports a company chaired by Australian iron ore magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest wants to reopen a nickel mine in Western Australia shut more than 15 years ago. A successful restart of the Mount Windarra mine by Poseidon Nickel Co , would mark Forrest's return to nickel mining after quitting the board of Anaconda Nickel in 2002 and founding Fortescue Metals Group , Australia's third-largest iron ore company.
Reuters | November 10, 2011 | 6:47 am

Saskatchewan’s potash royalties won’t change for four years

Reuters reports that Saskatchewan's provincial election results have ensured stability of potash revenues for the next four years. Premier Wall has promised to leave potash royalties paid to the province by major producers unchanged for the next governing term, in contrast to the NDP, which wanted to raise them. Saskatchewan is the home base of Potash Corp of Saskatchewan and its rivals Mosaic Co and Agrium Inc also have potash mines in the province.
Reuters | November 10, 2011 | 4:34 am

Opposition grows to Newmont’s $4.8 bln Peru mine

Political and community leaders in Peru's Cajamarca region demanded on Wednesday that Newmont Mining abandon its $4.8 billion Conga project and said the central government's efforts to broker a truce had failed.
Reuters | November 3, 2011 | 1:35 am