Thursday
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03 Jul 2008
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet appeases PIGS, the dollar thunders along, and investors confirm discovery of the investing world’s new Holy Grail.
Monday
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30 Jun 2008
With a stronger election mandate, Mongolia's ruling party may, at long last, be able to approve the Oyu Tolgoi draft investment agreement.
Monday
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30 Jun 2008
While not matching the record number of IPOs listing on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2006-07 the year-just-ending’s performance by Western Australian companies showed they had weathered the global credit crunch fairly well.
Monday
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30 Jun 2008
London-based Indian industrialist Lakshmi Mittal, the fourth richest person in the world, may be considered getting involved in the takeover fight for Rio Tinto.
Wednesday
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25 Jun 2008
BMO Capital Markets Bart Melek suggests that rising food and energy inflation and the equity market are “adding luster for gold.”
Tuesday
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24 Jun 2008
Mining and other resource companies, especially companies with maturing debt in the next two years, are rushing into bond markets. But the window is closing fast.
Sunday
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22 Jun 2008
Soaring natural gas prices and premiums being paid for agricultural-grade ammonium nitrate are hitting explosive prices for a mining industry already beleagured by cost increases.
Friday
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20 Jun 2008
Scotiabank economist Patricia Mohr says copper prices “remain resilient and are very lucrative for miners” as the bank’s commodity index sets fifth new record in as many months.
Thursday
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19 Jun 2008
The Zimbabwe government is considering taking over unexploited mining claims held by foreign companies and parcel them to locals under the controversial Indigenisation and Empowerment Act which came into effect recently.
Thursday
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19 Jun 2008
A massive infrastructure build-out to support future growth of emerging markets, combined with a focus on infrastructure repair and replacement in G-7 nations, portends tremendous benefits to global mining.
Thursday
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19 Jun 2008
Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll makes some pertinent comments on the role sovereign wealth funds are beginning to play in the global mining sector.
Wednesday
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18 Jun 2008
The resurgence of the country’s mining sector is helping push the DRC’s annual growth rate to over 12 percent, but inflation is rising even faster.
Tuesday
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17 Jun 2008
CEOs of the top 40 mining companies believe mining companies are still undervalued as the developing world story is not fully understood, says a PWC review.
Monday
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16 Jun 2008
Tanzania has postponed the introduction of sweeping changes in the country’s tax regimes, but has instead announced measures to deal with companies that escape paying corporate taxes by annually declaring losses.
Sunday
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15 Jun 2008
The rising costs of equipment and the long delivery times necessary for many items are additional factors increasing capital costs and lead times for the mining sector.
Friday
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13 Jun 2008
A mining analyst and equity fund manager says mining companies’ earnings could move sideways from next year as they are increasingly feeling the pinch of rising production costs against lower output.
Friday
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13 Jun 2008
DRC Deputy Mines Minister, Victor Kasongo, says the Government will start its contract renegotiation talks with some 60 mining companies in July.
