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Randgold, Iamgold to help boost West African gold production by 30% - GFMS

Wednesday , 10 Mar 2010
Gold production in the region is expected to rise by about 2m oz per year until 2013

SECURITY OF SUPPLY

Indian hunt for South Africa's junior coal miners heats up

Tuesday , 09 Mar 2010
Indian steam coal end-users are looking to secure supply but are finding attractive assets scarce

A GLANCE AT 36 STOCKS THAT BENEFIT

Coking coal: back on proverbial fire

Monday , 08 Mar 2010
Lucky stocks with exposures on the rip as contract negotiations said to see prices up 55% to USD 200 a tonne.

GOLD UPDATE

Gold: setting up for its next move to the upside?

Monday , 08 Mar 2010
Expansionary monetary policies, exploding national debt and global currency devaluations, are creating a very favorable scenario for the price of gold.

WORLD'S HOTTEST 100 MINING STOCKS

The fortunes of iron ore and its many good bedmates

Thursday , 04 Mar 2010
The broad, heavy, heave continues towards integrated steelmakers, and upstream to iron ore, coking coal, manganese, nickel, and even molybdenum and cobalt.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Will the real Yamana Gold please stand up?

Thursday , 04 Mar 2010
Founded in 2003, Yamana does everything to ignore its blessing of copper, a wonderful cash-generating metal, with demonstrable uses.

THE IDES OF MARCH STEEL

ArcelorMittal SA limps back into action

Wednesday , 03 Mar 2010
Kumba Iron Ore retains the high moral, and financial, ground, in a grinding showdown.

AGONIES OF GOLD INVESTING

The song, dance, bad fever, of gold stocks

Wednesday , 03 Mar 2010
That Barrick name popped up, amid the aroma of a three Windhoek draughts, Africa's finest lager.

REGULATIONS PUBLISHED PREMATURELY

Zimbabwe says it is reviewing foreign ownership rules

Wednesday , 03 Mar 2010
A cabinet minister said Wednesday the government was reviewing the rules forcing foreign fims to sell a majority stake in the company to locals

DIAMOND MINING

Zimbabwe says it has produced 2m carats of diamonds so far this year

Tuesday , 02 Mar 2010
The announcement from the country comes the day after an international monitor arrived to review the mining operations at the controversial Marange fields

STRIKE ACTION

NUM drops Gold Fields strike threat

Tuesday , 02 Mar 2010
The Union agreed to cancel the strike after coming to an agreement with the gold digger

VALUATIONS

Fresnillo's billion dollar silver story

Tuesday , 02 Mar 2010
The world's biggest producer of primary silver commands a huge market value, thanks to its London listing, and precious metals cache.

FRONTIER INVESTING

Megatrends: iron ore and coking coal

Tuesday , 02 Mar 2010
The investment version of a benevolent tsunami is again building up in the form of dozens of iron ore stocks on the move.

EARNINGS REPORT

Metorex announces return to adjusted headline profit

Tuesday , 02 Mar 2010
The group attributes the numbers to a rise in both copper and cobalt output but warned production could dip in current quarter

12-MONTH RALLY REMAINS INTACT

Coal dust, gold dust

Monday , 01 Mar 2010
Coal stocks, led by seaborne coking coal, remain in excellent demand.

AFRICAN GOLD

Tanzania's 2009 gold earnings up 15%

Monday , 01 Mar 2010
The country's gold sector was helped along by higher bullion prices and an increase in output the central bank said on Monday

EXECUTIVE MOVES

Leslie, Cockerill re-emerge

Monday , 01 Mar 2010
The two well-known mining executives have been named as CEO of Extract Resources and Executive Chairman of Petmin, respectively

GOLD MAJORS SCORECARD

For Big Gold, 2009 was a good year

Monday , 01 Mar 2010
With wiped faces, is it time for major gold companies to start focusing on shareholders?

HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AT STAKE

Kumba kicks ArcelorMittal SA where it hurts

Friday , 26 Feb 2010
One of the world's craziest contracts sees Kumba halt iron ore feed to the steelmaker.

INVESTMENT INSIGHTS

Miners are no easy meat for bankers

Friday , 26 Feb 2010
The sweet and the sour: a look at the changing role of debt in global mining.

ROUGH DIAMOND

Petra sells massive diamond for record $35.3m

Friday , 26 Feb 2010
The highest price ever paid for a rough diamond

MINE WASTE SOLUTIONS

First Uranium shares jump 35% on mine reinstatement news

Friday , 26 Feb 2010
The news that the miner now has the necessary permits to proceed with a planned production increase also sent shares in Gold Wheaton up over 11%

REDUCED NET LOSS

Great Basin's two developing gold mines making good progress

Thursday , 25 Feb 2010
Great Basin Gold, which is developing the Hollister gold mine in Nevada and the Burnstone mine in South Africa is making progress in bringing both to production.

EXPLOSIVES EXPERTISE

AEL Zimbabwe gears up for Ngezi platinum mine expansion

Thursday , 25 Feb 2010
South African headquartered AEL's Zimbabwe subsidiary has secured a contract to increase explosives supply and technology at Zimplats' big Ngezi platinum mining ops

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Newmont unleashes some old fashioned charm

Thursday , 25 Feb 2010
A relatively scintillating performance for 2009 restores some confidence in the notion that gold miners can produce genuine free cash flows, in this case, USD 1.2bn.

EXPECTS A BETTER 2010

Exxaro says full year earnings dropped 31%

Thursday , 25 Feb 2010
The South African coal miner blamed the fall in earnings on a drop in international prices for coal and lessened demand for mineral sands products.

GOLD WEEKLY

SA gold stocks cheap but headwinds remain

Wednesday , 24 Feb 2010
While cost control, among other things, remains an issue, if South African gold miners get their growth profile right, things could start to look up