Miners prefer Canada to overseas: KPMG
Nearly 80% of mining executives are optimistic about the wider industry's five-year growth prospects, up sharply from 62% in 2022.
Miners Xstrata Copper and Highlands Pacific have delayed the completion of the feasibility study for the Frieda River joint venture copper/gold project, in Papua New Guinea, by 11 months. Xstrata was initially schedule to deliver the study in January 2012, to maintain its 81.82 percent shareholding in the project.
