Jutson Rocks strikes gold
GOLD mineralisation has been discovered at Global Metals Exploration’s flagship Jutson Rocks project, 125km northeast of Laverton in WA’s Eastern Goldfields. Intersections of up...
Tenement sale facilitates exploration and project development
SOUTH Australian-based Minotaur Exploration has sold its wholly-owned Roxby Downs tenements to BHP Billiton for $10 million. The sale and purchase deed between Minotaur...
Drug testing not a wee issue
THE resource industry’s peak national employer group the Australian Mines and Metals Association (AMMA), has labelled a recent Fair Work Australia (FWA) tribunal drug...
Production up, costs down for nickel major
ASX-listed Mincor has boosted nickel production and its operating surplus while driving down cash costs for the March 2012 quarter.
Compared to the December 2011...
Joint venture partnership to benefi t from miner’s golden touch
DIVERSIFIED metals explorer Midas Resources has entered into a joint venture with Perth-based private exploration company Cazador Resources in a move that will expand...
Australian miner striking gold in southern Ghana
VIKING Ashanti has increased its gold resource by 40 per cent at its wholly-owned Akoase East gold project in southern Ghana.
The Perth-based company, which...
First foreign-owned saleable Indian iron ore for sale
NSL Consolidated has produced the first saleable beneficiated iron ore during the commissioning of the phase one Kurnool iron ore dry separation plant in...
Government funding still available for resources sector
FUNDING is still available to assist employees and enterprises within the minerals and resources industries to improve skills and workplace productivity, SkillsDM has said....
Mineral sands major refinances after poor quarter
AFTER a poor March 2012 quarter, mineral sands major Iluka Resources has refinanced its debt by entering into $800 million-worth of five-year bilateral revolving...
Copper-magnetite producer inks offtake contract
AFTER searching for suitable buyers for its distinctive magnetite-copper direct shipping ore (DSO), IMX Resources has signed a life of mine (LOM) contract with...