Cardinal Resources takeover battle heats up

Chatree remains in operations despite and order by the country's military regime last week to halt all gold mining and exploration activities.

South Australian company OZ Minerals has designed a refining process that allows it to increase the quality of its copper concentrate and exponentially reduce export costs.

There are fresh opportunitis to explore for new lithium resources in the rich Latin American footprint, says Latin Resources Managing Director, Chris Gale.

Employment prospects for Australia’s professional geoscientists deteriorated even further in the opening quarter of 2016, driven down by mining’s negativity and dashing hopes for an improvement in the geoscientist employment situation.

The mine hosts type-2a diamonds which account for less than 1% of global supply.

New report says mining and metals companies set to default on debt at more than three times the historical rate going back to 1983.

BMI Research analysts also believe gold prices bottomed in 2015 and expect the metal to edge higher over the coming quarters.

Strategic shift comes as the world's biggest miner tries to regain investors' confidence.

It now owns 8.47% of Atlas Iron, which gives Glencore direct exposure to iron ore production.