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Firestone secures another toll treatment deal with De Beers

Firestone Diamonds, the junior diamond development company, has been selected for another De Beers toll treatment project, this time at the Namdeb assets on Namibia’s coast.

Fortescue expands Solomon production target

West Australian iron-ore producer Fortescue Metals Group has upped the production target for its third mine and planted a US$8.9 billion price on the next stages of its expansion.

Cluff resource update

Cluff Gold plc has released an updated, NI 43-101 compliant, reserve and resource statement for its two producing mines

Patriot resumes mining, again

Patriot Coal Corp has for the second time this year resumed operations at its Federal No2 underground mine near Fairview in West Virginia after they were suspended due to issues with air quality

Long-only investments

In a letter to the Editor, Peter Hollands writes that "Your leading article on February 12, my study (as referenced in the issue of February 5) and Professor Crowson’s letter (March 5) may each have a point. Surely, as Professor Crowson points out, the prices of many commodities have risen since 2004. But that does not mean that they have necessarily all risen for exactly the same mix of reasons."

Coking coal prices: Structural change

Initial coking-coal contract prices have settled at US$200/t, 55% higher than previous benchmark prices, according to reports

Phillip Crowson letter

Letter from Professor Phillip Crowson on metals price modelling

Australian tension after retrenchment

Ethnic tensions rose in Australia this week after an engineering contractor retrenched 54 local workers while retaining up to 70 similarly-skilled Filipinos at a Chinese-owned iron-ore project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

Orkney Mine fire

Aurora Empowerment Systems Ltd evacuated its Orkney mine, in South Africa’s North West province, after a fire broke out underground

South African strike update

Most of the employees at Platinum Australia Ltd’s Smokey Hills mine in South Africa have been on strike for the past week.


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