tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67626131581903778632026-09-19T07:48:37.795-04:00Doc's Mining News DailyBullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-48737842687775696732011-12-29T12:11:00.000-05:002011-12-29T12:11:33.211-05:00Zimbabwe says no immediate raw platinum export banZimbabwe is considering a ban on raw platinum exports in a bid to force miners to set up refineries in the country, but this move will not take place "overnight", a government official said on Wednesday.The southern African country has the second largest known platinum reserves in the world, after neighboring South Africa, and the top two global producers, Anglo American Platinum and Impala BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-62150799416993279462011-12-28T11:25:00.000-05:002011-12-28T11:25:04.666-05:00New Guinea Gold Corporation: Mt Sinivit Mine-Interruption to Mining and ProcessingVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 28, 2011) - New Guinea Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE:NGG)(FRANKFURT:NG8) ("NGG" or the "Company") announces that mining and processing at its Mt Sinivit operation has temporarily been halted. Representatives of the Wild Dog Mining Area Landowner Association (WDMALA) and Lulai Nakama Association (the "Landowners") have occupied the mine-site and thusBullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-19775413391418462232011-12-27T22:51:00.000-05:002011-12-27T22:51:16.934-05:00China 2012 rare earth quotas unchanged from 2011More quotas in reserve for firms that have not yet passedinspectionsRead More>>BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-21937051942794648492011-12-26T23:22:00.000-05:002011-12-26T23:22:14.359-05:00China expects 11 pct industrial output growth in 2012 -radioChina industry minister says 2011 industrial output growthat 13.9 pctRead More>>BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-87434804109719573422011-12-23T00:03:00.000-05:002011-12-23T00:03:12.109-05:00Chieftain Metals signs purchase agreement with Royal GoldDec 22 (Reuters) - Canadian junior miner ChieftainMetals Inc said U.S. mining royalty company Royal GoldInc will pay it up to $60 million for rightsto buy a portion of gold and silver to be produced from its minein British Columbia.Read More>>BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-17117260741061136192011-12-22T00:43:00.002-05:002011-12-22T00:43:30.588-05:00Why We Remain Bullish on Small Mining SharesHOUSTON -- Sometimes a thought can be distilled into a single chart.
That is exactly what we shall do in this very short holiday offering.
The year 2011 was not all that kind to the smaller, less liquid and more
speculative junior miners and explorers. Indeed as shown in the chart
just below, by many measures the companies we affectionately call “The
Little Guys” have had little BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-18773769184344075712011-12-20T23:56:00.002-05:002011-12-20T23:56:17.678-05:0010 Biggest Silver Producing Mines in the WorldHere is a list of the 10 biggest silver-producing mines in the world,
based on available data. There are differences of opinion about some of
the rankings and some of the production figures. Such differences of
opinion stem from how miners report production (some report pure silver
production while others report silver equivalent production), whether
production is reported by individualBullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-641528030803190602011-12-20T23:21:00.000-05:002011-12-20T23:21:57.452-05:00Silvercorp Metals Inc.: Chinese Law Enforcement Agents Open Criminal Case to Investigate Creators of Falsified ReportsVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 20, 2011) - Silvercorp Metals Inc. ("Silvercorp" or the "Company") (TSX:SVM)(NYSE:SVM) has been advised that Chinese law enforcement agents have opened a criminal case to investigate and find the creators of false and fraudulent reports by anonymous parties such as IFRA, Alfred Little and others, attacking Silvercorp and its Chinese BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-88143243666020769452011-12-19T23:56:00.000-05:002011-12-19T23:56:22.806-05:00South American Silver’s stock is up 17% after announcing four billion pound copper resourceSouth American Silver (TSE:SAC) stock shot up 17% in morning trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange to $1.62 a share after the company announced the findings from its NI 43-101-qualified resource estimate of the company’s Escalones copper-gold-silver project in central Chile.The project’s inferred resource is 420 million tonnes of mineralized material containing 3.8 billion lbs of copper, BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-58042010390913866912011-12-19T12:42:00.003-05:002011-12-19T12:42:43.366-05:00Interview with CEO of Endeavour Silver CorpTWST: Let's begin with a brief overview of Endeavour Silver Corp.
Mr. Cooke: Endeavour Silver (EXK) is a company founded in 2002, and when we went looking for strategic silver assets in Mexico in 2003, it was basically two guys with an idea, about $300,000 in working capital and $0.10 stock - the company had no assets at that time.
Eight years later, today, we have growing concerns, obviously: BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-55852792285740574902011-12-19T09:33:00.002-05:002011-12-19T09:34:30.119-05:00Eldorado to Acquire European Goldfields and Create the Leading Growth Oriented Intermediate Gold ProducerVANCOUVER, BC – Eldorado Gold Corporation (TSX: ELD, NYSE: EGO, ASX: EAU) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with European Goldfields Limited (TSX: EGU, AIM: EGU)
pursuant to which Eldorado has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of
European Goldfields by way of a plan of arrangement under the Yukon Business Corporations Act. BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-71375397236615094002011-12-16T11:28:00.000-05:002011-12-16T11:40:42.232-05:00Sandstorm Gold Announces That Rambler's Ming Mine is Now in ProductionSandstorm Gold led by former CFO of Silver Wheaton, Nolan Watson, continues to increase shareholders earnings per share with this being the latest mine coming into production. Sandstorm Gold is a gold metal streaming business operated much to the same way as Silver Wheaton. For more information on Sandstorm Gold check out this article on seeking alpha http://seekingalpha.com/article/BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-9587197470538157372011-12-14T16:12:00.000-05:002011-12-14T16:12:42.933-05:00Freeport sees full operations at Indonesia mine early 2012JAKARTA, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Freeport McMoRan Copper &Gold Inc said on Wednesday it expects its Indonesianshipments of copper concentrate to be limited until fulloperations are restored at its giant Grasberg mine in early2012, after a deal to end a three-month strike.Read More>>BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-27525045542832485352011-12-13T12:24:00.000-05:002011-12-13T12:24:27.875-05:00Allied Nevada Reports Expansion of Main Mineralized Zones at Hasbrouck With Results Including 171 Meters of 1.1 g/t Gold and 33.5 g/t Silver (1.7 g/t Gold Equivalent(1))RENO, NEVADA--(Marketwire - Dec. 13, 2011) - Allied Nevada Gold Corp. ("Allied Nevada" or the "Company") (TSX:ANV)(NYSE Amex:ANV) is pleased to provide highlights from the final drilling of the 2011 season at its wholly owned Hasbrouck project, located five miles south of Tonopah, Nevada. Recent assays indicate extension of mineralization on the east side of the hill and continuity between the BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-84277639240681053492011-12-13T12:21:00.000-05:002011-12-13T12:21:15.483-05:00Endeavour Silver finds high-grade zones at Mexico mineDec 13 (Reuters) - Canadian miner Endeavour SilverCorp said it has discovered two high-grade silver-goldzones at its Guanajuato mine in Mexico and expects a substantialincrease in reserves and resources at the mine at the year-end.Read More>>BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-80038947068904080232011-12-13T09:17:00.000-05:002011-12-13T09:17:11.792-05:00Rio Tinto wins fight against Ivanhoe poison pill Dec 13 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto has comeout with the upper hand against its potential takeover target,$16 billion Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, with an arbitratorruling the global miner is immune to Ivanhoe's "poison pill".Read More>>BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-59207288269748921142011-12-12T22:35:00.000-05:002011-12-12T22:35:48.043-05:00More High-Grade Drill Results Expand Key Zones at Paramount Gold and Silver's San Miguel Project in MexicoWINNEMUCCA, NEVADA--(Marketwire - Dec. 12, 2011) - Paramount Gold and Silver Corp. (NYSE Amex:PZG)(TSX:PZG)(FRANKFURT:P6G)(WKN:A0HGKQ) ("Paramount") today reported more exceptional high-grade intercepts from ongoing in-fill and exploration drilling at its 100%-owned San Miguel Project in northwestern Mexico. The exciting new results are from the Don Ese North target and the San Antonio silver BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-19906709804279673132011-12-08T18:48:00.000-05:002011-12-08T18:48:14.548-05:00Silvercorp's Fiscal 2012 Drilling Exploration Program UpdateVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 8, 2011) - Silvercorp Metals Inc. (TSX:SVM)(NYSE:SVM) ("Silvercorp" or the "Company") provides an update on its Fiscal 2012 exploration drilling programs on its mines and properties in China and Canada. The Company planned 244,000 meters of surface and underground drilling for its various projects for Fiscal 2012 (April 1, 2011 - March 31, 2012). AsBullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-86968705146937771532011-12-08T08:55:00.000-05:002011-12-08T08:55:35.704-05:00Jaguar falls on TSX after CEO's sudden departureBrazilian gold miner Jaguar, which last month became the subject of takeover rumours, fell nearly 10% on Wednesday, after announcing the sudden departure of CEO Daniel Titcomb.TSX-quoted Jaguar said last month it decided to “explore alternatives” to an unsolicited offer it received, and declined to comment as to why Titcomb was leaving so abruptly, though fund managers Mining Weekly Online spoke BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-16994726575914784232011-12-08T08:53:00.000-05:002011-12-08T08:53:28.848-05:00S.Africa's gold output down 3.3 pct y/y in OctoberJOHANNESBURG, Dec 8 (Reuters) - South Africa's goldoutput fell by 3.3 percent in volume in October while totalmineral production was down 12.7 percent compared with the samemonth last year, data showed on Thursday.Read More>>BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-39395182245092777322011-12-06T22:50:00.001-05:002011-12-06T22:51:09.881-05:00Silver producers being held hostage - SprottSprott Asset management, CEO, Eric Sprott says that silver producers are
being hurt by the volatility in the paper silver market and need to
help ensure that the physical market rules the price.
Listen to Full Interview BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-75269445755959259772011-12-06T10:50:00.001-05:002011-12-06T10:51:35.813-05:00Afghan govt. invites bids for gold/copper depositsKABUL (Reuters) -
Afghanistan's Ministry of Mines issued a tender on Tuesday to
explore and develop four mineral deposits potentially containing gold
and copper, as it tries to attract investment to its potentially
lucrative natural resources sector.
Read More>> BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-42021488970117300382011-12-06T10:31:00.000-05:002011-12-06T10:31:02.674-05:00Diamond demand to outpace supply growth to 2020 Chinese and Indian appetite for diamonds will fuel demand growth of more than 6% a year over the next decade and almost double the size of the market, far outpacing supply increases limited by a lack of new mines, Bain & Company said in a report.That is set to hold up prices even through periods of volatility and could be supported by additional demand for diamonds as investment, the BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-71400185362503590962011-12-06T10:29:00.000-05:002011-12-06T10:29:46.831-05:00Endeavour Silver Continues to Extend High Grade Silver-Gold Mineralization in the Daniela Vein at the Guanajuato Mine in MexicoEndeavour Silver Continues to Extend High Grade Silver-Gold Mineralization in the Daniela Vein at the Guanajuato Mine in Mexico: Drilling Intersects 391 gpt Silver and 6.6 gpt Gold Over 3.7 Meter True WidthRead More>>BullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6762613158190377863.post-37018868905184068282011-12-05T16:15:00.001-05:002011-12-05T16:17:46.519-05:00New Interview with the Lorne Waldman of SilverCorpFinancialsense.com has released an interview from December 2nd with Lorne Waldman of SilverCorp. SilverCorp is attempting to move past the allegations thrown at the company a few weeks back.
Listen to Interview HereBullRunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765145786390916908noreply@blogger.com0