An official poll was conducted May 10 by the well regarded Ecuadorian pollster group, Informe Confidencial. The polls were conducted in both the Ecuadorian capital city of Quito and the country’s largest city, Guayaquil. The question asked was ‘Weighing things, do you think the development of mining is good or bad for the country?’ Over […]

A subsidiary company of Minefinders, a precious metals mining and exploration company, has commenced a binding arbitration process seeking approximately $10 million in damages from Ausenco International. This was launched on May 22 by Cía Minera Dolores (CMD), before the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association. In addition to the damages, CMD seeks to […]

The directors of Murchison Metals have announced a recommended merger of Murchison and Midwest Corp by way of a Murchison scheme of arrangement. This will create a major new iron ore group based in Western Australia’s mid-west. Murchison says there is “compelling logic to create major value uplift for shareholders of both companies. [It is a]unique time […]

A new report recently released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) documents various US uranium trends, including an upswing in exploration, production and employment in 2007. EIA’s Domestic Uranium Production Report, released May 13, documents a 63% jump in uranium industry employment in 2007 versus 2006. According to the report, total employment stood at […]

ICMM’s Kathryn McPhail has won the Bronze Award for the International Finance Corp/Financial Times essay competition for her essay on Sustainable Development in the Mining and Minerals Sector: The Case for Partnership at Local, National and Global Levels. This year the annual competition received 750 essays from 90 countries, under ‘Private Sector Development: Creating Markets, Transforming […]

Advanced mining and mineral processing techniques to extract minerals will be developed through a new £6 million research centre, announced today. The centre is a partnership between Imperial College London, Envgland, and Rio Tinto, aimed at developing the mine of the future. It will push forward the development of innovative mining technologies and techniques to improve the extraction […]