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POTASH

Rum Jungle signs deal with Toro

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Uranium developer Toro Energy and fellow-listed Rum Jungle Resources have signed a farm-in agreement over the potash and related evaporate mineral rights for Toro’s Lake Mackay project, in Western Australia. The Lake Mackay project consists of...

By: Esmarie Swanepoel

21st May 2013

POTASH

Maiden resource declared at Hatch Point

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ASX-listed junior Potash Minerals has declared a maiden Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (Jorc-) compliant resource of 902-million tons, grading 20% potassium chloride (KCI) at its Hatch Point project, in the US. The mineral resource estimate was...

By: Esmarie Swanepoel

20th May 2013

URANIUM

U3O8 Corp outlines Argentina strategy

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Canada-based uranium project developer U3O8 Corp this week outlined its strategy for Argentina, saying it believed the Laguna Salada deposit was a potential low-cost, near-term producer, and setting up a pipeline of projects for sequential...

By: Henry Lazenby

17th May 2013

FINANCING

St Augustine Gold and Copper announces $11m private placement

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Toronto-listed St Augustine Gold and Copper, which is developing the King-King copper/gold project, in the Philippines, on Thursday announced a private placement with Queensberry Mining and Development for $11-million. The private placement saw...

By: Henry Lazenby

17th May 2013

RARE EARTHS

Critical alternative rare earths sources remain elusive well after 2010 curbs

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Following the global economic downturn of 2008/09 and a series of events and press reports in 2010 that coined what some referred to as the “rare-earth crisis,” there has been a glut of new rare earths projects starting out, yet few have...

By: Henry Lazenby

17th May 2013

Exploration

Projects in Namibia to boost economy

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The Namibian mining industry is set for substantial growth in the future, with a number of projects at various stages of development in progress. Earlier this year Mining Weekly reported that international gold miner B2Gold’s Otjikoto gold...

By: Gia Costella

17th May 2013

COPPER

Panoro projects progress as Peru seeks to double copper output

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King copper’s crown recently slipped in Peru; formally the second-largest producer of the red metal, the country was pushed into third place by China during 2011, according to the International Copper Study Group’s 2012 fact book. Peru is...

By: Simon Rees

16th May 2013

PROJECT EXPANSION

McEwen Mining takes a close look at growth-cost alternatives

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Faced with lower gold and silver prices and challenging capital markets, miners are being forced to look closer at low-cost alternatives to grow profitability, prompting metals producer McEwen Mining to expand its existing El Gallo 1 mine, in...

By: Henry Lazenby

16th May 2013

Topics in these articles

City	Company	Country	Currency
Perth Toronto Troy Windhoek San Juan	Rum Jungle Resources Toro Hatch Potash U3O8 Corp St Augustine Gold And Copper Cansource International Frontier Frontier Rare Earths Korea Resources Corporation Lynas Molycorp Neo Material Technologies Save Malaysia Stop Lynas B2Gold Bannerman Resources Jan De Nul Minemakers Mining Weekly Namibian Marine Phosphate Newmont Tungeni Investments Union Resources Weatherly International Andina Panoro Minerals McEwen Mining	Australia United States Argentina Brazil Canada China South Korea United Arab Emirates Philippines India Korea Malaysia Mexico Mongolia South Africa Namibia Chile Peru	AUD USD CAD
Industry Term	Music Group	Natural Feature	Person
Potash Brine Systems Alkaline Solution Continuous Surface Mining Mining Near-term Producer Near-term Production Using Low-cost Mining Uranium Project Developer Every Product High-tech Items Others Applications Rare-earth Producer Rare-earth-processing Capabilities Technological Food Chain Copper Metal Gold Miner Energy Mid-tier And Junior Mining Red Metal Capital Markets Miners Metals Producer	Energy	Lake Mackay Sierra Pintada Northern Cape	Vanessa Guthrie Ben Binninger Andrew Russell Bayan Obo Joel Schneyer Phillip Kenny Ron MacDonald Christian Pilon Jorge Merino Luquman Shaheen Rob McEwen
Province Or State	Region	Product	Continent
Western Australia Chubut California Quebec San Juan	Central Australia Western Australia Central Africa Central Peru	Potassium Chloride $11-million	South America North America