* Newstin.com is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.com and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.com is for sale! *

Metal Ore Mining

Hind Copper plans to float subsidiary

To invest about Rs. 2,000 crore in consolidating mining business KOLKATA: Hindustan Copper Ltd. (HCL), the only vertically integrated copper mining company, is now planning to get into exploration. For this, it proposes to...

Miners find encouraging gold prospects near Livengood

New exploration on land that was scoured for gold years ago near Livengood indicates the property could be developed into a mine on a scale similar to the Fort Knox Mine, according to a Colorado-based company.

Northern Gold Mining Inc. Initial Kirana Results and Polymetallic Grabs

Northern Gold Mining Inc. continues the exploration of its Kirana Project in Kirkland Lake and its Matheson Claim Group in Timmins, and announces the results of assays on the earliest Fidelity area drill holes as well as grab...

Australian share market's "black Friday": another sign of economic crisis

By Mike Head 11 October 2008 Far from Australian capitalism being sheltered from the global financial storm—as the media and the Rudd government have been claiming for months—the rout of the Australian share markets and dollar...

Averting crisis: Mitchell Gold on growing up gay in America

Decades before Mitchell Gold became a famous furniture mogul, he considered ways to kill himself. ''I debated how to do it. An overdose of sleeping pills seemed somewhat painless,'' Gold writes in his new book, Crisis: 40...

Severstal prepares to cut back steel production by up to 30%

By Catherine Belton in Moscow and Rebecca Bream in London Severstal, Russia's biggest steelmaker, said yesterday it was cutting back steel production by as much as 25 per cent at its biggest plant in Russia, and by 30 per cent...

Capstone and Sherwood Sign Combination Agreement

Sherwood Copper Corporation and Capstone Mining Corp. today announced that, further to their joint news releases dated September 8 and September 18, 2008 respectively, the companies have entered into a combination agreement...

Gold Reserve Announces Sale of Certain Equipment (Business Wire)

SPOKANE, Wash.----Gold Reserve Inc. announced it has agreed to sell one SAG mill, two ball mills and related motors currently being manufactured for the Company’s Brisas Project. The total value of this transaction is...

Mechel Holds Working Meeting at Its Yakutugol OAO Coal Mining Subsidiary (PR Newswire)

Mechel OAO , one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces that a working meeting was held at its Yakutugol OAO coal mining subsidiary on October 8, 2008. Participants in the meeting were the Republic of...

Anooraq Announces Appointment of Head of Exploration and Mineral Strategy (PR Newswire)

Friday October 10, 9:00 am ET VANCOUVER, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Anooraq Resources Corporation ("Anooraq" or the "Company") (TSXV: ARQ; AMEX: ANO; JSE: ARQ) announces that Bava Reddy has been appointed as Executive...