01/06/2012 (On-The-Air)

A new fluorspar start-up is the third mining company to nail its beneficiation colours firmly to its business mast; An Australian company is preparing to mine phosphates off Namibia’s ocean floor; and US legislators have visited Sasol’s mines...

Encore gets underground mining permit for BC gold project

Vancouver-based Encore Renaissance Resources has been granted a permit by the British Columbia Ministry of Mines to start underground mining at the firm's flagship project, the Bonaparte gold mine. Underground extraction will start immediately,...

Minemakers improves Bonaparte takeover offer

ASX-listed exploration company Minemakers on Wednesday improved its all share offer for phosphate-explorer Bonaparte. In March, Minemakers made a conditional scrip offer for all the shares in Bonaparte, on the basis of one Minemakers share for...

Minemakers now owns majority stake in Bonaparte

ASX-listed Minemakers has acquired a 50,5% stake in phosphate explorer Bonaparte, under its off-market takeover offer for the Namibia-focused exploration company. Minemakers now had majority control of Bonaparte. As a result of the Minemakers...

Bonaparte says Minemakers offer reasonable

The independent directors of ASX-listed Bonaparte on Tuesday advised its shareholders to accept the proposed takeover offer by exploration company Minemakers. Bonaparte said in a statement on Tuesday that the offer has been deemed fair and...

Bonaparte establishes task team to study Minemakers’ offer

The board of ASX-listed diamond-miner Bonaparte has set up a takeover response committee, which would comprising independent directors, to study the unsolicited take over offer from exploration company Minemakers. Last week, Minemakers made a...

Company Announcement: Bonaparte advises no action on unsolicited takeover offer

Attached please find a press release on: Bonaparte Diamond Mines NL ("Bonaparte") (ASX Code:BON) wishes to advise shareholders that Minemakers Limited ("Minemakers") (ASX Code:MAK) announced today its intention to make a conditional scrip offer...

Australian junior prepares to mine phosphates off Namibia's ocean floor

A growing world population eating better food is opening up mining opportunities in agricultural input materials. The mining industry has seen the world’s biggest mining company, BHP Billiton, report that it expects to invest “billions upon...

Australian junior prepares to mine phosphates off Namibia's ocean floor

A growing world population eating better food is opening up mining opportunities in agriculture input materials. The mining industry has seen the world’s biggest mining company BHP Billiton report that it expects to invests “billions upon...

Phosphate is Namibia’s new ‘underwater treasure’ – Bonaparte

Australian Stock Exchange-listed phosphates and diamonds mining company Bonaparte was studying the economic feasibility of mining phosphates offshore of Namibia in sea depths of 185 m to 220 m using current marine-mining and dredging technologies,...