PROOF of Anvil Mining’s bona fides have been delivered in spades with a stunning $C296.6 million raising last week amid the turmoil of world equity markets.
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GIVEN the likes of Ivanhoe, CuDeco and Xstrata’s ambitious underground plans at Ernest Henry, it’s fair to say the Cloncurry copper region of north western Queensland has a good quota of huster, bluster, and hyperbole. In contrast Exco Resources looks to have on its hands a rock solid, realistic and deliverable project that should come into production early next decade.
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CANADA’S Pacific Rim Mining is scaling back its workforce in El Salvador as it slows down exploration on its El Dorado, Santa Rita and Zamora-Cerro Colorado gold projects until it receives a mining permit for El Dorado as anti-mining campaigning increases in the run up to presidential elections in 2009.
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CHARTERS Towers gold miner Citigold Corporation is much maligned in some circles, however, it is undertaking a drilling program which may cause sceptics to swallow hard. In fact the drilling program comprises one hole. Citigold refers to it reverently as the Deep Hole.
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POOR Telfer performance and geothermal-power exposure suggest Lihir Gold might be a more interesting target for gold corporates than fellow significant Australian independent producer Newcrest Mining.
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MINING service sector analysts say some excellent buying opportunities have emerged in an “oversold” section of the market, with demand for engineering services in particular showing no signs of abating and earnings upgrades increasingly likely on the back of strong work flows and new acquisitions.
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MIRROR, mirror on the wall, where is the best value pure resources play of all? While some point investors immediately towards iron ore, copper or oil, the equities research team at Macquarie Bank say look no further than the much maligned ugly sisters, coking and thermal coal.
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TAKE heart all you directors of junior mining companies cowering in your trenches and thinking the world has come to an end just because your share prices have been falling.
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IT WAS a few weeks ago now, but it will take far longer for the memory to fade – the memory of Ivanhoe Mines executive chairman Robert Friedland barking like a dog while expressing his views about gold, onstage at the World Mining Investment Congress in London.
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BRONWYN Barnes did not follow a typical path into the mining boardroom. Her start in the industry came only nine years ago when she joined Anaconda Nickel under Andrew Forrest – a “wonderful introduction to the mining industry”.
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