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Intrepid Mines sold off again after failing to find raiders of its Indonesia project

Intrepid Mining has now lost 59% of its market value after news broke that a local business groups orchestrated the ouster of ASX and TSX-listed company from an Indonesian copper and gold project.

Frik Els | July 24, 2012 | 6:28 pm

Indonesia ‘requests’ 51% of Grasberg, Freeport agrees to 9.3% ‘at the moment’. What happens next?

The tide of resource nationalism sweeping the developing world may be catching up with Grasberg and Freeport Indonesia.

Frik Els | July 24, 2012 | 5:55 pm

Apprenticeship or University Degree?

As reported on Yahoo.com, the first year wage of tradespeople ($ 52,000) is even higher than the salary of university graduates ($ […]

Susanne Iberle | July 24, 2012 | 5:12 pm

Spanish uranium mining revived

Stock in London-listed Berkeley Resources added 9% after announcing a deal with Enusa – Spain's state-owned nuclear enterprise.

Frik Els | July 24, 2012 | 4:41 pm

China’s bridge to Nowhere and Billiton is getting out’a Guinea: MINING.com’s top stories last week

MINING.com had record high traffic last week; it could've been the weather or it could've been the excellent authorship. Either way here are the favourite stories from last week:

Joshua Zapf | July 24, 2012 | 4:02 pm

Zimbabwe strike cripples diamond operations of military-backed Chinese firm

A strike by over a thousand employees of Anjin Investments has crippled the Chinese company's Zimbabwe-based diamond mine.

Marc Howe | July 24, 2012 | 3:49 pm

WTO probe ratchets up rare earth tensions with China

The World Trade Organization will investigate China's quotas and tariffs on rare earth minerals following prompting from the US, EU and Japan, who allege the export restrictions are in contravention of international trade regulations.

Marc Howe | July 24, 2012 | 10:06 am

CFTC probe into silver manipulation could be over by September

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) four-year probe into manipulation of prices on the silver market could be over as soon as September, according to CFTC member Bart Chilton.

Marc Howe | July 24, 2012 | 9:42 am

Canadian mid-tier gold miners present an investment bright spot

Mid-tier gold miners are outperforming industry giants by pursuing smaller project for lower costs. According to Julie Gordon writing for Reuters, modest-sized […]

Marc Howe | July 24, 2012 | 2:31 am

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