Jewelry demand showed a significant recovery in November 2009 compared to the same month a year ago. The improvement in mall traffic coupled with consumers loosening their purse strings has benefited jewelers with increased consumer spending in the first month of the all-important holiday selling season.
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Vancouver, B.C. – January 20, 2010 – The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) in keeping with its strong commitment to health and safety today congratulated the recipients of the David Barr Award, Safe Day Everyday Gold Award, and Safe Day Everyday Award at the Health & Safety Awards Breakfast at Mineral Exploration Roundup 2010. The breakfast was the 27th annual health and safety awards ceremony hosted by AME BC.
Brazil’s MPX (MPXE3.SA), part of the conglomerate controlled by Brazilian industrialist Eike Batista, said Thursday it bought an area of land in Colombia on which it will build a 20 million-tonne-a-year coal export terminal.
SUEK, Russia’s top steam coal producer, has picked five investment banks to handle a London initial public offering (IPO) in the second quarter, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Don L. Blankenship, the chief executive of the coal giant Massey Energy, has been called a lot of things by those who oppose his industry in all its manifestations — from “an affront to common democracy” to simply “evil.”
A mineral deposit that matter is a deposit that helps you make money regardless of the economic cycle – has a long life and it has an impact on the global supply. Supply-demand gaps are going to develop for most of the metals in the next 5-30 years and we need to be smart with our exploration money and spend them only on projects that matter.
Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold Inc. drastically scaled back production when the recession hit late in 2008, but its fourth-quarter performance improved with higher gold and copper prices and better market conditions in Asia. There were some positive
David Ebner, Globe and Mail A major new oil sands project by international players ConocoPhillips Co. COP-N and Total SA is the latest sign of recovery in northern Alberta, a driver of the Canadian economy that had been waylaid
WestStar Resources Corp. wants to test the coal on its Strathcona Fiord property, located 177 kilometres southeast of the Eureka weather station. But the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology argues that Westar’s proposed development area includes some of
LONDON: European shares extended losses on Thursday, with miners slumping on lower metals prices and reports they face higher taxes in Australia. At 1603 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European shares was down 0.9 per cent at 1,043.09 points,
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DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/cf96b3/australia_metals_r) has announced the addition of the “Australia Metals Report Q1 2010″ report to their offering. Australia Metals Report provides industry
A coal mining company’s work on an Ellesmere Island property could be thwarted by paleontologists who say there are valuable plant and animal fossils in the ground. WestStar Resources Corp. wants to test the coal on its Strathcona Fiord property, located
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European shares fell sharply for a second day on Thursday with banks sliding, miners suffering from lower metals prices and reports they face higher taxes, and after U.S. data cast further doubt on the economic recovery. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top
NEW YORK_Concerns about China taking measures to slow down its economy and a broader market slide sent shares of coal stocks tumbling Thursday. An analyst also downgraded many big names in the industry, warning that the sector is increasingly being
looks to restart expansion plans. related stories Independent Canadian Natural Resources expects to move forward with two major oil sands projects this year, extending a string of recent developments in the sector as industry conditions improve with
* S&P/TSX composite ends downs 1.8 percent at 11,469.10 * Obama’s bank plan shakes financial shares * Resource shares weaken on falling commodity prices (Adds details) TORONTO, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Toronto’s main stock index fell hard for a second session
(TheNewswire.ca via COMTEX News Network) — (via Thenewswire.ca) Tres-Or Resources Ltd. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a property option agreement (the “Option Agreement”) dated December 21, 2009 with Sementiou, Inc. (the
New York gold futures fell for a second straight day and to a three-week low as the US dollar rose against other currencies. The yellow metal retreated to below $1,100 an ounce before settling just above the mark, but still registered a 0.8 percent
By Our Canadian Correspondent The annual Mineral Exploration Round Up 2010 had its usual international flavour as delegates showed off and gossiped about projects from all over the world, but it was the recent discoveries of home grown deposits that