Print2online CMS 4.0 http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/ ©2007 CBJ http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/files.php?file= http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/ http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/mining/mining_nov_dec_09/de_beers.html Nov/Dec 09 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:09:00 -0600 The largest diamond company in the world, De Beers, broke new ground in the Northwest Territories, Canada, with the official opening of its Snap Lake Mine in July 2008. Snap Lake is the first of its two new Canadian mines recently constructed and opened. The company opened the Victor Mine in northern Ontario the following day. With an investment of close to $2 billion to http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/mining/mining_nov_dec_09/weatherly_intl.html Nov/Dec 09 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:11:00 -0600 Weatherly International PCL began as a cash-shell back in 2005 with the expressed purpose to develop a company which would take advantage of opportunities in Africa. “Management had aspirations to be a world-class resource company,” Rod Webster, CEO and founder of Weatherly International PCL says. “By 2006, we were in position to acquire the remnants of the copper industry in Namibia. These were http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/mining/mining_nov_dec_09/platina_resources.html Nov/Dec 09 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:56:00 -0600 Platina Resources Limited (Platina), an Australian-based company, is identifying, exploring, developing and intending to produce platinum group metals (PGM) and gold. Platina was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in 2006, having acquired PGM assets from Helix Resources Limited (Helix).  Helix is a 1986 ASX-listed company for which Robert W Mosig, Platina’s founding Chairman, previously acted as chairman for 15 years. Platina’s goal is http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/mining/mining_nov_dec_09/grange_resources_ltd.html Nov/Dec 09 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:39:00 -0600 As Australia’s largest integrated magnetite mining and pellet production company, Grange Resources Limited has quite the tale to tell. Russell Clark, Managing Director, joined the company in March of 2008, lured by the fantastic opportunities offered by Grange Resources and the strong iron ore market.“At that time, Grange had a very large development project in Western Australia called the Southdown project. Through the course of http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/mining/mining_nov_dec_09/gekko.html Nov/Dec 09 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:29:00 -0600 Many a grand plan is hatched at the kitchen table, including Gekko Systems, a minerals and metallurgy processing company from Victoria in Australia, founded in 1995 by Elizabeth Lewis-Gray, CEO and Managing Director, and husband, Sandy Gray, Technical Director.“We founded the company originally to develop an invention (the InLine Pressure Jig) that my husband had made when he ran his own mining operation,” Lewis-Gray explains.“An http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/mining/mining_nov_dec_09/fnx.html Nov/Dec 09 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:23:00 -0600 Finance, business and geological expertise strike it big in the Sudbury BasinThe partnership between  FNX Mining and Sudbury, Ontario, was forged out of  the earth many years ago.  It started before FNX Mining bought mines in the Sudbury Basin in 2002. It started before that, when Chairman and worked as a geologist in the Canadian Bush.ibbon.You could say the relationship began several billion years ago. http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/mining/mining_nov_dec_09/riversdale_mining.html Nov/Dec 09 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:06:00 -0600 Riversdale Mining Limited has two top deposits “under one roof”. This major announcement is the result of dedi­cated work by the Riversdale team. IRJ spoke with Steven Mallyon, Riversdale Managing Director, to get this exciting story straight from the source.Mr. Mallyon is a long-term player in the mining industry. Starting out in construction materials, he moved into the mining sector in the 80s. He has http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/mining/mining_nov_dec_09/allied_gold.html Nov/Dec 09 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:51:00 -0600 Allied Gold Limited, an Australian-based gold production and exploration company, continues to move from strength-to-strength in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The company’s strategy, to increase its gold inventory on Simberi Island by defining additional resources with a view to expanding annualised production, has served it well and resulted in a host of big announcements throughout 2009.In June, Allied announced the production of the 100,000th http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/mining/mining_nov_dec_09/ramelius_resources_ltd.html Nov/Dec 09 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:17:00 -0600 Ramelius Resources Limited has picked a fitting mascot for itself.  Ramelius was the name of a horse belonging to a Saxon nobleman in 938 AD, who tied his horse to a tree while he hunted. Upon the nobleman’s return, he discovered that Ramelius had scraped the earth away to reveal a rich silver-lead vein in what would become a 1000-year operating mine in Germany.Ramelius the http://www.internationalresourcejournal.com/mining/mining_nov_dec_09/tanami_gold_nl-aus.html Nov/Dec 09 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:01:00 -0600 “Ours is a story of persistence and commitment,” Graeme Sloan, CEO and Managing Director at Tanami Gold NL, of Perth, Western Australia starts.“In particular from Denis Waddell, the company’s founding chairman. Without his passion and belief in the Tanami region I have no doubt Tanami would not be here today. A great deal of credit has to go to him.” Waddell, currently Tanami Gold’s Non-Executive The International Resource Journal