32 miners trapped in Manitoba nickel mine
39 workers spent the night in safe houses down Vale's nickel mine in Thompson, Manitoba and those still trapped expected to return to surface Monday.
39 workers spent the night in safe houses down Vale's nickel mine in Thompson, Manitoba and those still trapped expected to return to surface Monday.
FNI's outstanding indebtedness is currently approximately US$38 million.
The 56 year old who built Xstrata into one of the world’s biggest mining firms and then sold it to Glencore, is tipped to be on the verge of landing his first big fish.
Everything nickel had going for it in 2014 will only become more evident during 2015, but all bets are off if Indonesia even partially lifts ore ban.
“Base metals were a ‘bright’ spot in 2014—largely ignored by equity markets and are among our ‘picks’ for investors in 2015,” observed Scotiabank economist Patricia Mohr in the latest edition of the Scotiabank Commodity Price Index published Thursday.
Michael Defensor is racing to mine and ship nickel from projects across the Philippines to plug the gap in global supplies left by Indonesia’s ore-export curbs.
Asian Mineral Resources blazes a trail in South East Asia.
The country effectively halted all but processed metal shipments in January in an effort to force miners to build smelters.
First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX) ("First Point" or the "Company") is pleased to announce results from its first diamond drilling campaign at the 100%-owned Mich nickel-iron alloy ("awaruite") property, located 55 kilometres southeast of Whitehorse in the southern Yukon Territory.
The news comes barely a day after the miner announced it was scrapping the sale of its Nickel West division.