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Mt Gibson Iron has gone into a trading halt ahead of an announcement relating to its sales talks with customers and other groups. The announcement comes two weeks after Mt Gibson told the Australian ...

id to commercial banks on excess reserves, helping the central bank battle the credit crisis. The move will encourage banks to keep excess reserves at the Fed because they will be earning higher inter...

China's state-owned Hebei Iron and Steel Group is in early talks with Australian iron ore prospector Aurox Resources to finance the Aurox's 6-million-tonne iron ore project, the Australian miner's man...

Why the fall in the gold price when physical gold remains in huge demand? - generated much interest. It referred to a suggestion put forward by Jeff Nichols of American Precious Metals Advisors that a...

HONG KONG (Menafn - MarketWatch) -- Shares of mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto were down sharply in Sydney Thursday following pullbacks in industrial commodity prices overnight and a report Eu...

Colorado Goldfields Inc. (OTCBB:CGFI), puts the spotlight on Project Geologist Jonathan Moore direct from the Company’s properties in Silverton, Colorado. In a candid unrehearsed video interview by Chief Financial Officer C. Stephen Guyer, Mr. Moore talks about his experiences with this summer’s drilling program. (PRWeb Oct 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/colorado_goldfields/looking_statements/prweb1516444.htm

Encouraged by stable demand patterns in developing countries, and the lack of regulatory restrictions in these markets, world phosphates market is projected to reach 61 million metric tons by the year 2012. The relatively staid growth patterns in the developed markets are expected to be partially offset by the growth in developing markets of Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. (PRWeb Oct 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/phosphates_fertilizers/animal_nutrition/prweb1509664.htm

Driven by technological advances in powder metals (P/M) forging, spray forming, hot isostatic pressing, direct powder rolling, high temperature vacuum sintering and metal injection molding, the world metal powders market is projected to reach $5.7 billion by the year 2012. Growing popularity in the use of new equipment components made from powered metallurgy in industries such as electronics, aerospace, automobile, and mechanical engineering, is expected to offer expanded market opportunities for future growth. (PRWeb Oct 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/metal/powders/prweb1509764.htm

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Oct. 23, 2008) - Timmins Gold Corp. ("Timmins Gold") (TSX VENTURE:TMM) is pleased to announce that it has acquired, by staking, a 40,000 hectare land package...

Australia's only large domestically-controlled gold miner Newcrest Mining (ASX: NCM) achieved a 12% lift in group production from its Australian and Indonesian operations with a September quarter outp...