March 11, 2011

Lions Gate Metals closes Can$6 million private placement

Lions Gate Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:LGM) (“LGM” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that, further to its press release of March […]

February 25, 2011

Northern Dynasty’s Pebble project receives a positive preliminary assessment

Northern Dynasty said on Wednesday that Wardrop completed a positive preliminary assessment report for the Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in Southwestern Alaska. "For the Pebble Project, the 45-year Reference Case yields…

February 3, 2011

Cananea strike, Santa Eulalia flooding cut into Southern Copper production

Phoenix-based Southern Copper, a subsidiary of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Mexico, Wednesday reported increased molybdenum production in 2010, while copper, zinc, and silver […]

January 31, 2011

Moly Mines receives $250 million of help from China Development Bank to develop molybdenum/copper mine

Moly Mines Ltd. announced on Sunday that it received a commitment letter from the China Development Bank for US$250 million to be […]

January 28, 2011

Freeport’s top 2011 priority–‘Capex, capex, capex’

Phoenix-based Freeport-McMoRan has reported reserves of 120.5 billion pounds of copper, 35.3 million ounces of gold, and 3.39 billion pounds of moly.

November 18, 2010

Junior Companies Mine Their Own Business

Metals investors are used to seeing junior companies founded on a good idea and healthy amounts of hope. However, those times might be over as investors […]

November 1, 2010

Special Grinding Mill Linings to Chile

Metso has supplied special, chromium-molybdenum steel mill linings for one 40’x25.5′ SAG mill and two 26’x42′ ball mills for the expansion of […]

September 27, 2010

Terrane Metals Corp. Shareholders Approve Acquisition by Thompson Creek Metals Company

Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc.,  one of the world’s largest publicly traded, pure molybdenum producers, announced that the shareholders of Terrane Metals […]

June 26, 2010

Afghan mineral wealth put at $1-3 trillion – minister

Afghanistan has significant deposits of copper, iron ore, niobium, cobalt, gold, molybdenum, silver and aluminum.

May 25, 2010

Rio Tinto to Spend $340M for Autoclave Plant

Kennecott Utah Copper announced in mid-April that its parent company, Rio Tinto, will spend $340 million to build a new Molybdenum Autoclave […]