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Potash for the green(ing) giant
Mineweb, UK - 15 hours ago
Further expansion of the sinkhole could result in a temporary suspension of potash shipments from Russian producer Silvinit (SILV RU, USD 1600.00), ...

Russian aluminium defence bends under pressure
Mineweb, UK - 16 hours ago
In what is shaping up as the most significant case against the Russian business oligarchy ever argued in an international court, Oleg Deripaska, ...

Russia's new government promises no change in resource concessions ...
Mineweb, UK - 16 hours ago
The list of the new Russian government ministers, released by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this afternoon, preserves most senior officials in their place, ...

US calls for investigation of Tajikistan aluminium spending
Mineweb, UK - 21 hours ago
Never in two centuries, however, was there ever an Englishman (or Russian), who played this game, a practising lawyer. So, who could have imagined that what ...

ICMM launches new website
Mineweb, UK - May 9, 2008
... Portuguese and Russian - for our global audience. We are confident that the new design will make it easier for you to find relevant content quickly. ...

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African mining…an opportunity to create long term value in a time ...
Mineweb, UK - 7 hours ago
Some observers have pointed out the similarities between the current situation and gold's previous high in 1980, when Russian tanks were rolling into ...

Uranium miners on the prowl, as spot prices fall
Mineweb, UK - 16 hours ago
Bloomberg reports that Russian state-owned mining company Uranium Holding ARMZ will treble output to 10300 tons of uranium a year at a cost of US$8.6bn with ...

Kinross forecasts strong start-up for 3 new mines in 2008
Mineweb, UK - 18 hours ago
During a conference call to discuss first-quarter 2008 results, Burt said that the newly enacted Russian Federation laws specifying ownership interests for ...

Market nerves towards potash pricing grow, decimating Uralkali's ...
Mineweb, UK - May 1, 2008
Net profit, calculated according to Russian Accounting Standards, more than quadrupled -- from $116 mllion in 1Q07 to $558 million in 1Q08. ...

The Premier of WA and MMC Norilsk Nickel discuss international ...
Mineweb, UK - 6 hours ago
Norilsk Nickel, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Russian Federation, is the largest mining and metals company in Russia and the world's ...

Long-running Tajik aluminium case sets UK legal fees record
Mineweb, UK - 7 hours ago
Also included at the time in the counter-claim were Oleg Deripaska and Alexander Bulygin, who controlled Russian Aluminium (Rusal), when it persuaded Rahmon ...

Highland Gold Mining releases final results
Mineweb, UK - 9 hours ago
Combining their technical expertise with our own world-class assets and experience in the Russian gold-mining sector has allowed us to increase the ...

Platinum to crest a new record high this year?: GFMS
Mineweb, UK - 12 hours ago
Once changes in ownership of inventories are taken into account, however, including sales from Russian stocks into the open market (and netting off ...

Marine mining for diamonds, precious and base metals a new ...
Mineweb, UK - 7 hours ago
... AIM and completed further placements with Barrick Gold, Teck Cominco, Anglo American and the prominent Russian mining investment company Epion Holdings. ...

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UC RUSAL closes acquisition of large stake in OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel
Mineweb, UK - 19 hours ago
The market value of the Company, the largest public company in the Russian mining and metals industry, nearly doubled over the last year. ...

Russian coal – now you see it, now you don’t
Mineweb, UK - Apr 24, 2008
Adapting Honore de Balzac's maxim just a little, behind every Russian steel fortune there is a raw material crime. Not because they had read Balzac, ...
Fitch affirms MMK at 'BB'; outlook stable Mineweb

Uralkali lifts spot potash above gold
Mineweb, UK - 6 hours ago
The Russian stock market reacted by lifting Uralkali's share price by 1% in the first hour of trading, another 5% in the second hour. ...

ArcelorMittal tries new approach to break into Russian steel
Mineweb, UK - 6 hours ago
But mineral cost inflation has begun to hurt, even in integrated steel industries fired by 7% annual GDP growth -- that is to say, even in the Russian boom, ...

Norilsk Nickel develops relations with Chinese stainless steel ...
Mineweb, UK - 20 hours ago
Norilsk Nickel, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Russian Federation, is the largest mining and metals company in Russia and the world's ...

Polymetal announces Q1 2008 production results
Mineweb, UK - 2 hours ago
In February, Polymetal acquired the remaining 1.8% stake from the Russian Fund of Federal Property, thus consolidating a 100% ownership in Omolon. ...

Peter Hambro Mining preliminary results
Mineweb, UK - 3 hours ago
... works and acquisitions the Group's Russian category B+C1 reserves have increased by 20%, category C2 reserves by 26% and category P1 resources by 6%.

Gazprom and Qaddafi are on a winning stream
Mineweb, UK - 22 hours ago
The maverick Berber has outlived, outwitted, outsourced, and outprofited five US presidents, four Russian heads of state. ...

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Archangel diamond deal faces Kremlin equity review before closing
Mineweb, UK - 15 hours ago
What makes this uncertainty sharp is that the Russian legislation has just been enacted to establish the Russian equivalent of the Committee on Foreign ...

Mordashov reshuffles management seats at Severstal
Mineweb, UK - 13 hours ago
Poor performance and uncertain prospects dog Russian steel and mining magnate Mordashov and management reshuffle not seen as improving the situation. ...
Severstal splits business into three divisions Mineweb

Russian raiders bury hatchet with De Beers over Archangel Diamond ...
Mineweb, UK - 5 minutes ago
LUKoil ends raid against Archangel Diamond’s Russian project, opening up new mine possibility. Grib is Russian for mushroom, and this isn't the season for ...

Mining potash has never been so good
Mineweb, UK - 20 hours ago
The Russian government has introduced export duties for fertilizers, and such chemical ingredients as sulphur. Quotas on export volumes have been threatened ...

Russia's biggest copper prize will likely be decided on clout
Mineweb, UK - 15 hours ago
Even if there are just two, possibly three contenders, all Russian household names, predicting who will win over the next 90 days of the contest may prove ...

Guinea tells RUSAL to renegotiate share sale or lose alumina plant
Mineweb, UK - Apr 10, 2008
Guinea's government has warned Russian aluminium group RUSAL that it risks losing its Friguia alumina factory if it does not successfully renegotiate a ...

Russian Railways to bid for Siberian copper deposit
Mineweb, UK - Apr 9, 2008
Russian Railways spokesman Dmitry Pertsev said the company would contribute a partly built railway link to the neighbouring Chineiskoye deposit and would be ...

Rusal makes concessions to striking bauxite miners
Mineweb, UK - 1 hour ago
Severuralsk ("North Ural Bauxite Mining Company", Russian acronym SUBR ) operates five shafts, and all have been shut down since the day after miners at the ...