- Prices rise as demand soars
Industrial metal prices have been surging ever higher, in the wake of growing demand from the US, China, India, Japan and the eurozone. Supply tightness and critically low levels of inventories are also helping to firm prices upwards.
- Kumba's bold gamble in DRC
Kumba Resources, the company demerged from Iscor last year, says it will commit up to $30m in redeveloping the high-grade Kipushi zinc and copper mine situated in war-torn, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The mine is in Katanga province and since the 1990s Gecamines, the state mining company, has kept ......
- Nonferrous products look tight and costly in 2004
After seven years of decline, Purchasingdata.com 's Nonferrous Price Index rebounded 22% in 2003. The index closed 2003 at 109 (1/ '94=100), the highest level since 110.9 in December 1997. Base metals showed quite a bit of price action in 2003: U.S. spot copper rose from an average 79¢/lb in ......
- Boliden: New Organisational Segments - Mines and Smelters.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Boliden will be presenting its results in two new segments, Mines and Smelters, due to the organisational change implemented by the Group on 1st January 2007. Mines The segment Mines comprises the operations of the Aitik, Boliden Area, Garpenberg and Tara mines. Aitik mainly produces copper concentrate ......
- Alaska 2004: mining in review: exploration,
development and production are going strong around the state, promising
new jobs and revenue for Alaska.
One of the most bizarre years in Alaska's recent mining history is in full swing and only the snows of winter are likely to slow the pace of exploration, development and production around the state. In addition to the usual problems of who's AWOL after the 4th of July break, ......
- Mining on pace for record year in 2004
Preliminary estimates for Alaska's mining industry indicate the sector will set a record in 2004 for the value of minerals mined and spending on development and exploration projects. "There's the potential for it to be a record year," said Rich Hughes, recently selected as the new mining development specialist at ......
- Alasks 2001 Mining in Review: The number of dollars
spent this year on mining operations around the state is down
significantly when compared to the last several years. (Mining Special
Section).
Over the last ten months the Alaska mining industry has been trying to take stock of where it's been in the last year and where it's going in 2002 and beyond. Where we have been is painfully simple: declining gold prices, declining base metals prices, declining platinum and palladium prices, ......