The Geological Society of London is delighted to again host the Shell London Lecture Series throughout 2011. These monthly public lectures are all held at the Geological Society's Piccadilly apartments in Burlington House.

The academy for continuing education in geology of the German BDG proposes several workshops from May to December 2011. Amongst others the topics concern geothermal energy, the evaluation of natural mineral deposits or the issue of radon gas. A special early bird discount is offered if you register two months before the date of the course.

The Spanish School of Professional Geology presents its draft programme of courses for continuing education in geology that will be held in 2011. All dates indicated in this agenda are still susceptible to further modifications.

Copper and iron ore prices should remain high in the near future because of additional demand for reconstruction in Japan after a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd Chief Executive Robert Friedland said. The earthquake in northeastern Japan destroyed thousands of homes, levelled buildings and bridges and caused damage estimated at up to $308 billion, according to the Nikkei newspaper.

Kazakh mining group ENRC (ENRC.L) said underlying profit more than doubled, on record production and demand recovery for its products, and that the global economic outlook is still improving. Underlying EBITDA jumped 118 percent to $3.19 billion, in line with the consensus, as revenue rose 72 percent to $6.60 billion.

AngloGold Ashanti's (ANGJ.J) top executive said on Tuesday the company hoped to keep its global cost increases to half the industry average but the situation in South Africa was "a lot tougher." Mark Cutifani, the chief executive of Africa's top gold miner, cited increasing depths, reduced grades and input inflation as structural increases putting upward pressure on the costs of gold mining.

Gold Fields (GFIJ.J), the world's fourth-largest listed gold miner, said on Tuesday rising commodity prices were putting cost pressures on gold miners even as the price of the precious metal itself climbed. "We are concerned about what we've seen on the commodities front," Chief Executive Nick Holland told the Reuters mining summit, citing oil's recent rally but also other rising costs for key things such as timber and steel.

Teck Resources announced today that it expects lowers coal output this year due to bad weather conditions along its rail lines and […]

Using a gold price of $1,000 per ounce, the Kumtor open-pit LOM plan has been used to project the net cash flow for the open pit operations for the period of January 1, 2011 to 2021. Total gross revenue from the sale of gold and minor silver credits are estimated to be nearly $5.0 billion while direct operating costs are estimated to be $1.9 billion or $385 per recovered ounce of gold produced.