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Highland raises $16.5 million for Upper Peninsula copper properties

Micro-cap Highland Resources added 28% to trade at 9c on Wednesday on higher than usual trading volumes, after announcing it has closed the final tranche of its non-brokered private placement, raising a total of $16.5 million.

Frik Els | May 31, 2012 | 7:15 pm

Outer Harbour 1, Olympic Dam-Jansen 0: BHP gets final approval for $20 billion iron ore expansion

There are "growing signs" that Outer Harbour will take precedence over BHP's massive Olympic Dam project and the greenfield Jansen potash venture in Canada.

Frik Els | May 31, 2012 | 6:29 pm

Why isn’t this copper miner smiling? He’s getting a $45 million bonus just for staying on

In all $265 million will be doled out to senior management at Xstrata to stop them from jumping ship after a merger with Glencore. The two companies are also paying $200 million to their advisers to push the deal through.

Frik Els | May 31, 2012 | 5:36 pm

Glenstrata ready to become the largest mining industry merger in recent history

The prospectus giving details of the creation of a $90 billion mining and commodities trading behemoth will finally find its way to the inboxes of shareholders today.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 31, 2012 | 2:49 pm

Driller says West Africa is hot and Peru is cold

Energold Drilling (TSX VENTURE:EGD) beat back a commodity overhang in 2012 and announced a 134% increase in revenue, growing from $22.7 million to $53.3 million.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 31, 2012 | 5:18 am

Olympic Dam decision pushed to the wire

If the board of the world's largest miner does not make a decision on the giant copper-gold-uranium-silver project in South Australia's outback by 8 December then it would lose all approvals and royalties concessions.

Frik Els | May 30, 2012 | 9:00 pm

Silvercorp says work interrupted at mine in China

Canadian Silvercorp Metals (TSX: SVM-News)(NYSE: SVM-News), China’s biggest silver miner, said Monday that production at its flagship silver-lead-zinc Ying Mine will be interrupted for about five days as a result of power interruptions.

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 29, 2012 | 7:08 pm

IMAGE GALLERY: Barrick’s 3,800 metre high Pascua-Lama project

Barrick Gold posted a cool image gallery of its Pascua-Lama project.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 29, 2012 | 5:06 pm

Tiny El Salvador needs mining but worries about water contamination

The government of El Salvador is warning that the future large-scale development of the Cerro Blanco mine in southern Guatemala will greatly endanger the quality of water found in the Lempa River, which supplies water not only to Guatemala but also to Honduras and El Salvador.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 29, 2012 | 4:38 pm

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Highland raises $16.5 million for Upper Peninsula copper properties

Outer Harbour 1, Olympic Dam-Jansen 0: BHP gets final approval for $20 billion iron ore expansion

Why isn’t this copper miner smiling? He’s getting a $45 million bonus just for staying on

Glenstrata ready to become the largest mining industry merger in recent history

Driller says West Africa is hot and Peru is cold

Olympic Dam decision pushed to the wire

Silvercorp says work interrupted at mine in China

IMAGE GALLERY: Barrick’s 3,800 metre high Pascua-Lama project

Tiny El Salvador needs mining but worries about water contamination

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