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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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Existing reserves, infrastructure and export capability
As Peter Landau, Executive Chairman at Continental Coal, says, coal was by no means a standout commodity in South Africa up until the last three years. Continental, an Australia-headquartered junior explorer-come-producer active in South Africa, is one of those vehicles which embodies a big time of change and opportunity in
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The new face of mining in South Africa
Consider a 122 year-old company with the programmes in place to take women, persons with disabilities, school-level graduates (Grade 12) and others often overlooked in the ways of South Africa’s old mining industry, and grow them into operators, artisans, engineers and metallurgists. Consider De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM); a truly
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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 New
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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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Building a mining future in Newfoundland
On the first of the month, Ramblers Metals & Mining PLC announced that it intended to use the net proceeds realized from a private placement to provide additional working capital for its principle project in Newfoundland—bringing the company’s Ming copper-gold mine one step closer to production.  The funds will help
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Western Coal on track in 2010
Western Coal, headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. is a company that is constantly evolving. The company currently produces high-quality metallurgical and thermal coal from mines in northeast B.C. and West Virginia in the U.S. The company was incepted in 1997, originally named Western Canadian Coal, and was made up of a
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Celebrating 50 years of excellence
As reports of a slow upturn in the economy surfaced this February, Golder Associates had more than just boosted business to celebrate. On February 18, Golder announced that it had received Canada’s highest accolade for business performance: national recognition as a 2009 Best Managed Platinum Club Member. Platinum Club members
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