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Minesite News headlines November 18, 2008

Minews Story: November 18, 2008

Braemore Resources Turns A Profit On Platinum Smelting In South Africa, But Nickel In Australia Is A Tougher Proposition

There’s not much point picking up precisely where we left off with Braemore Resources: plenty’s changed since Hamish Bohannen presented at Minesite towards the end of last winter. Plenty’s stayed the same too. What’s changed is

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Minews Story: November 18, 2008

Centamin’s Unique Position In Egypt Puts A Potentially Greater Value On It Remaining Independent

A very shrewd move from Josef El-Raghy, chief executive of Centamin Egypt, back in August, in appointing Trevor Schultz as Executive Director of Operations. Thus Trevor is on board during the critical period leading up to

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Features: November 17, 2008

DRC Disaster Could Spell Serious Supply Disruptions To Tin, And Serious Issues Of Conscience To The World’s Mobile Phone Users

Who knows how it will go, up there in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rebel soldiers marching in the name of their leader and aspirant leader of the whole of the Congo Laurent Nkunda now control large

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Minews Story: November 17, 2008

CGA Mining Is Confident Of Producing First Gold At Masbate In March

These days, there aren’t too many well-funded gold companies around that are on the way to production, or in process of ramping up. CGA Mining stands out among those that are. Judging by the two initial reports from Haywood and

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Minews Story: November 17, 2008

Rambler Metals Intercepts More Mineralization On the Ming Mine And A Few Potential Partners In China

Another day, another set of excellent drill results from Rambler Metals & Mining. The latest numbers delivered from the ongoing underground diamond drilling at the company’s Ming mine on Canada’ eastern seaboard included a

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Commodities: November 16, 2008

As Governments Attempt To Stimulate Demand By Investing In The Basic Fabric Of Modern Society, Miners Wisely Cut Capacity

A gathering of the great and the good from the largest 20 economies on earth this weekend in Washington will doubtless have kept many journalists occupied. But will it have solved anything or produced any remedies for the global

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Minews Story: November 16, 2008

That Was The Week That Was … In London

In London what started as a relatively strong week ended up badly with all ten of the FTSE 100 miners closing down. Most of the significant falls came on Friday in reaction to sharp falls in commodity prices as the market took on

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Minews Story: November 15, 2008

That Was The Week That Was ... In Australia

Minews. Good morning Australia. Is there any good news to report, or is it all gloom?

Oz. Mainly gloom, but with flashes of hope, as our friend Richard Elman emphasised midweek with his observation that he was “seeing the

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Minews Story: November 15, 2008

That Was The Week That Was … In Canada

Minews. Now over to our Canadian Correspondent for a look at how the Canadian markets performed over the past week.

CC. It was another wild week on the Canadian markets, as Teck Cominco, Katanga Mining and Anvil Mining took

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Minews Story: November 13, 2008

Some Of London’s Gold Miners Look A Lot Steadier Than Others At The Moment

“What’s it like out there today?” asks one mining company chief of another, as he leans over an inexpensive glass of wine at the monthly mining company chief executives’ lunch, hosted by Minesite. “Carnage”, comes back the rueful

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Minews Story: November 13, 2008

Churchill Mining Explores The River Route For East Kutai’s Initial 3 Million Tonnes Of Thermal Coal Per Year

Everyone wants a piece of Barack Obama these days. In Kenya they have a physical focus in Obama’s grandmother. In Indonesia, by contrast, they have a piece of his past, as Obama lived there for several years during his youth, a

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Minews Story: November 12, 2008

Tertiary Minerals May Be Onto A Fluorspar Winner At Storuman

Tertiary Minerals has kissed a number of frogs in its time. The last one was the Ghurayyah tantalum–niobium deposit in Saudi Arabia, which now appears to be stuck deep in a bureaucratic bog while the Saudis wrestle with the terms

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Minews Story: November 12, 2008

Archipelago Resources Now Has Several Financiers Interested In Funding Toka Tindung, But It’s Not Done And Dusted Yet

It is difficult to praise too highly the fortitude and patience Colin Loosemore, managing director of Aim-traded Archipelago Resources, has shown in the face of the continuous delays and disappointments over the development of

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Minews Story, Commodities: November 12, 2008

Richard Elman At Commodities Trading House Noble Group Reckons He Can See The Bottom Of This Market

Richard Elman is “seeing the bottom”. That’s either a very clever trick from a man with an office in a high-rise overlooking the murky waters of Hong Kong harbour, or good news for investors in mining shares. The latter is the

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Minews Story: November 11, 2008

Cangold May Be Small But It Could Play An Interesting Role As A Consolidator

The chief executive of Canadian listed Great Panther Resources, Bob Archer, was in London last week to talk about his company’s silver mines in Mexico – Topia and Guanajuato – where profitable production is on the increase.

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