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Market Spotlight
The Rio Tinto Group, an Anglo-Australian miner needing little introduction, was founded back in 1873. Made up of a consortium of companies who purchased historic copper assets near the Rio Tinto river in Huelva, Spain, the company has since diversified to develop a suite of assets ranging from aluminium, copper,
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The quest to become a significant gold producer
When you acquire a suite of assets that were formally two of the richest gold mines in Australia, in an area that was Australia’s third largest gold producing region, the results are bound to be very interesting. That is just what Excalibur Mining Corporation Ltd, of Perth, Western Australia, did
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Making high-grade breakthroughs
Sceptics in the northeastern Lachlan Fold Belt of New South Wales, Australia said it couldn’t be done—that the patterns of mineralisation for the enviably high grades of the Hargraves project were just too erratic to mine. But they were wrong. Hill End Gold (HEG), a strong junior gold miner from
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Fuelling our future
It’s been hotly-tipped as the next big thing in energy in Australia; taking underground coal gasification (UGC), a method of coal mining initially coined in the USSR, and potentially changing the face of coal mining. To list but a few of its plus points, it requires little or no underground
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Navigator Resources goes from explorer to producer
We couldn’t have arranged to speak with Navigator Resources, an emerging explorer-turned-producer from West Perth, Western Australia, at a more opportune time. As the company is set to make a string of exciting announcements on the Australian Securities Exchange, where it is listed under NAV, IRJ spoke with David Hatch,
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