Commodities

A year after Glencore and Xstrata merged into one of the world’s largest commodity trading and mining company, the Anglo-Swiss London-listed firm reported today its first full year production. Saved for zinc, production of every other natural resource that the FTSE 100 company mines was up. “Marketing performance during the quarter, across all business segments, […]

54,333,334 new ordinary shares at a price of 1.5 pence per share to raise approximately £815,000 The Directors’ of URU (AIM:URU), the base metals and uranium explorer and development Company, has announced that it has raised approximately £815,000 from institutional and private investors to progress its 100 per cent owned Zebediela Nickel project in South […]

Where’s the beef? Agriterra Ltd, the AIM listed pan-African agricultural group, has released operations update from Mozbife Limitada , the Company’s expanding beef business in Mozambique. Highlights: · Stocking ratios are being significantly increased at the 2,350 hectare Mavonde and 2,500 hectare Inhazonia farms through the implementation of Phase 2 of the Company’s multi...

New potential Copper discovery in Southern Finland FinnAust, the AIM listed exploration company with a portfolio of copper, zinc and nickel projects in Finland and Austria, has reported a new area of copper mineralisation discovered as part of the on-going exploration programme currently taking place around the previously mined Hammaslahti copper, zinc and gold mine […]

Recommencement of Soil Sampling Programme at Schonberg Project Noricum Gold Limited, the Austrian focused gold exploration and development company, has announced that it has recommenced the systematic soil sampling and geochemistry programme at the 100% owned Schonberg Gold and Precious Metals Project. The campaign, which was started late last year and stopped in late December […]

Is Tedd Kozel practicing for the next Olympic bobsled competition? Because it’s hard to find anything else sliding downhill at the same speed, unless it is Gulf Keystone’s (LSE:GKP) share price! No one else seems to know why, so my guess is as good as anyone else’s. The GKPshare price dropped 6.27% to 86.00 during […]

A scoping study shows Mpokoto is an attractive gold development project with highly attractive returns, Armadale Capital says. Armadale – which has the right to an 80% interest in the project in the Democratic Republic of Congo – says it is now focussed on advancing Mpokoto to the next stage of its development before targeting […]

Savannah Resources has agreed to acquire interests in the highly prospective Block 5 and Block 6 copper projects in Oman from Gentor Resources Inc. Savannah says the acquisition of these projects, which contain part of one of the best preserved copper-rich Ophiolite belts in the world, forms part of its growth strategy of building a […]

Mariana receives US$600,000 funding for Argentinean gold and silver exploration Mariana Resources Ltd, the AIM quoted exploration and development company focused in Peru and southern Argentina, announces that it has received Arg$4,745,826, Argentinean Pesos (circa US$600,000) funding by way of VAT refund from the Argentinean Tax Authorities. Monies received are in respect of VAT levied […]

Sula Iron and Gold (LSE:SULA), a multi-commodity exploration company focussed on Sierra Leone, has said that drilling has commenced at its Ferensola Iron Project located in the mineral rich Sula-Kangari Greenstone Belt in Sierra Leone. The drilling forms part of a 2014 exploration programme, which aims to define a JORC Direct Shipping Ore Iron Mineral […]