Feb
16
UPDATE 1-First Uranium posts Q3 loss on higher costs, forex loss..
February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
* Q3 loss $0.09/shr vs EPS $0.01 year-ago * Q3 rev up 94 pct to $32.0 mln * Forms committee to look at strategic alternatives Feb 16 - First Uranium Corp (FIU.TO) posted a quarterly loss, hurt by higher corporate expenses and a $7.4 million foreign currency loss. For the third quarter ended Dec. 31, [...]
Feb
10
China Zhongwang: To Buy Qinghai Aluminum Producer For CNY1.2 Bln..
February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd., Asia’s largest aluminum extrusion manufacturer by capacity, said Tuesday it plans to acquire smaller rival Qinghai Guoxin Aluminum Industry Incorporated Co. for CNY1.2 billion (US$175.5 million). Zhongwang said in a statement the acquisition will increase its annual capacity by 120,000 metric tons. Zhongwang said its annual capacity was about 600,000 tons [...]
Feb
9
Inmet posts Q4 profit on higher prices..
February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
TORONTO – TSX-listed Inmet Mining earned C$89,76-million in the fourth quarter, compared with a net loss of C$32,5-million posted a year earlier, after copper and zinc prices rose and the company reduced operating costs. Sales for the quarter more than doubled year-on-year to C$290,57-million, compared with C$139,63-million in the same period of 2008, Inmet reported [...]
Feb
2
DJ Copper Mine Output Capacity To Increase 19% By 2013..
February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment
LONDON, Feb 02, 2010 - Copper mine production capacity should grow at an average of 4.3% a year to reach 23.1 million metric tons by 2013, and based on existing facilities and announced project developments, mine output should increase by 19%, or 3.6 million tons, in 2013 from 2009, the International Copper Study Group said [...]
Feb
1
Xstrata 2009 coal output up 11 pct, copper falls..
February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment
LONDON, Feb 1 – Mining group Xstrata Plc posted an 11 percent rise in annual output of coal, its most profitable product, while 2009 mined copper production fell by 5 percent. Coal is expected to account for 40 percent of core earnings this year while copper is due to make up 36 percent and zinc [...]
Jan
28
Potash Corp earnings down 69%..
January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
TORONTO – Fertiliser product producer Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan earned $243,6-million in the fourth quarter of 2009, 69% lower than net profit of $788-million reported a year earlier, as the global economic downturn continued to weigh on sales volumes and prices. For the full year, the company posted net income of $987,8-million, compared with $3,5-billion [...]
Jan
8
Australia approves China’s $498m bid for Indophil..
January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment
JOHANNESBURG – The Australian Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has approved China’s Zijin Mining’s $498-million bid for Australian-miner Indophil Resources. Zijin has already agreed to buy a 19,99% stake in Indophil from Swiss-based miner Xstrata. Indophil owns a 34,23% stake in the $5,2-billion Tampakan copper and gold project in southern Philippines, controlled by Xstrata. The [...]
Jan
3
Chilean copper giant trims contract offer to workers..
January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Santiago, Dec 31, 2009 (EFE via COMTEX) — Chilean state-owned mining giant Codelco reduced the size of a proposed bonus Thursday in its latest contract offer to workers in the company’s northern division, who promptly rejected the bid. In their second assembly this week, the miners set 5:00 a.m. Monday as the starting time for [...]
Dec
29
Codelco Copper Workers Reject Wage Offer in Meeting..
December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Workers at Codelco’s Chuquicamata copper mine rejected the company’s latest wage offer in a meeting today and may vote to go on strike next month after a vote tomorrow, a union official said. A group of workers want union representatives to seek higher wages and bonuses in negotiations with the company, union official Jaime Graz [...]
Dec
28
Codelco Copper Workers Reject Wage Offer in Meeting..
December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Workers at Codelco’s Chuquicamata copper mine rejected the company’s latest wage offer in a meeting today and may vote to go on strike next month after a vote tomorrow, a union official said. A group of workers want union representatives to seek higher wages and bonuses in negotiations with the company, union official Jaime Graz [...]