Africa Weekly: Equinox Poised To Push Go At Lumwana, Central African Gold On The Brink, And Shareholder Discontent At Extract Resources

As Europe tipped into recession, the side effects of the crisis have savaged African stock markets. Foreign capital is pulling out, but some companies are still managing to make progress. As the week opened, High River Gold, a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

London Mining Plc

Results of Shareholder Elections in respect of Return of Cash and Associated Adjustments to Executive LTIP Scheme

Silverstone Resources Corp

Silverstone Provides Q3 - 2008 Silver Sales

Zaruma Resources Inc

Zaruma Resources Updates Luz del Cobre Project

Firestone Ventures Inc

Firestone Ventures Announces Torlon Hill Zinc-Lead Resource Estimate

GMA Resources Plc

Trading Update

Landore Resources Inc

JUNIOR LAKE MINING LEASES

Kalimantan Gold Corp Ltd

Kalimantan Gold Signs Option on Coal Opportunity

Cambrian Mining Plc

Quarterly Review and Business Update

AIM Resources

Burkina Faso Exploration Update

U3O8 Holdings plc

Results from EM survey at Clever Mary, WA

Resolute Mining Ltd

Notice of General Meeting

Geologix Explorations Inc.

Geologix Explorations Hosts Conference Call On Exploration Activities And Corporate Update

Greystar Resources Ltd

3rd Quarter Results

Banro Corp

Banro Intercepts Broad Zones of Gold Mineralization at its Lugushwa Project

Formation Capital Corp

Formation Resolves Appeals with Environmental Groups on Idaho Cobalt Project

European Goldfields Ltd

Directors Dealings

Petra Diamonds Ltd

Significant Shareholding

CoAL of Africa Ltd

Update on Mooiplaats Coal Project

Mariana Resources Ltd

Hochschild Mining to invest US$1.5M in Mariana Resources

Great Panther Resources Limited

Great Panther Lowers Operating Costs To Keep Mines Profitable