Minesite News Headlines September 06, 2010
Minews Story: September 05, 2010
The first week of September is when the market in London reopens for serious business after the summer slowdown. Due to the bank holiday it was a short week, but nevertheless there were some fast-moving stocks to follow. And,
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Minews Story: September 04, 2010
Minews. Good morning Australia. It’s hard to tell which is more interesting, your market or your government.
Oz. Oh, that’s easy, it’s the market, but largely because we still haven’t got a functioning government. Both major
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Minews Story: September 03, 2010
Minews. Now, over to our Canadian Correspondent for a look at how the Canadian markets performed over the past week.
CC. A major gold discovery in the Yukon and a bevy of corporate transactions kept traders firmly glued to their
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Minews Story: September 03, 2010
It can be very frustrating to get proper recognition in the market for a junior mining company, as Demetri Manolis, the chief executive of Aim-traded Goldplat admits, but for his particular company that moment cannot be far off.
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Minews Story: September 02, 2010
It’s taken longer than management imagined it would, and longer than some shareholders could hold out for, but Sabre Resources has now started preparations for drilling at its highly-promising Kaskara copper, lead, and zinc
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Minews Story: September 02, 2010
It is always useful to take a quick look at the share price of a company before starting to write on it, as it gives a useful snapshot of market sentiment. In the case of Canadian-listed Maudore Minerals the shares have shot up
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Minews Story: September 02, 2010
Eventually the Red Rock stake in Australian-listed Jupiter Mines will be diluted to the point where the influence of Red Rock chairman Andrew Bell will be marginalised. But by that time neither Andrew Bell, nor the Red Rock
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Minews Story: September 02, 2010
“Bizarre”. “Astonishing”. “Jaw-dropping”. All are valid ways of describing the mining conference currently being held this week in the Australian city of Perth. That it’s about mining is not the reason for the excitement in the
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Minews Story: September 01, 2010
“Aggressive” is a word that Geologix Explorations uses a lot when describing its strategy, and right now that certainly seems to be its style. The company has drill programmes ongoing at two projects in Mexico.
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Minews Story: September 01, 2010
“This year’s a happier year than last year, that’s for sure.” So says Michael Carvill, managing director of Kenmare Resources, and given the bumps and scrapes that Kenmare incurred last year, it’s hard to disagree. Back in 2009,
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Minews Story: September 01, 2010
Oleg Deripaska, chief executive of Russian aluminium monopoly Rusal, is preparing for a series of presentations to institutional investors in Boston and New York next week, chaperoned by one of his largest creditor banks, BNP
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Minews Story: September 01, 2010
If Marius Kloppers, the young chief executive of BHP Billiton, was expecting a rousing cheer from shareholders over his US$40 billion takeover bid for Canada’s Potash Corporation he will have been rather disappointed. Since the
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Minews Story: August 31, 2010
Canadian-listed Euromax Resources has been going through a very strange time this year, and the signs are that things are going to get even stranger. You cannot fly in the face of a clear vote at an AGM, when 69 million votes out
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Minews Story: August 31, 2010
Shares in Ovoca Gold have tacked on a handy 6p since they hit a year low of slightly less than 15p back in March. Since then, the recovery has been steady, and swift. The shares are now trading just shy of 22p, having tacked on
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Commodities: August 31, 2010
Jim Rogers has been saying it for a long time, but the evidence that he is right has slowly been increasing. Last week the dollar-yen exchange rate hit a 15 year high/low of Y84. That’s only a few cents away from the record Y79.7
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