Brazil’s Vale shareholders near deal to pay Eletron $692m

Argonaut Resources NL (ASX:  ARE) announced on Friday results from pre-collar assays from the Alford project (EL3969) on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula. Highlights from the intercepts were ALDDH10: 78m at 0.62% Cu from 88m. It also included 54m at 0.86% Cu from 88m.

Kazakhmys, the world's 10th largest copper miner, was confident the long-term outlook for copper remained positive as a surge in prices drove its full-year profit higher. Kazakhmys said on Thursday its 2010 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) rose 59.5 percent to $1.93 billion. According to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S estimates, the average EBITDA forecast stood at $1.86 billion.

EMED Mining’s MD says the group expects to start production at its Spanish copper mine in the first half of next year.

Zambian copper miner Equinox Minerals, which has made a hostile bid for Lundin, is now viewed as itself being a takeover target […]

Australia-listed EnviroGold Limited and Novus Gold Corp., which trades on the TSX, have signed a purchase-option agreement concerning Novus Gold’s properties in […]

Bellzone Mining announced on Tuesday that it had completed a US$133 million placement of 102 million ordinary shares. Canaccord Genuity Limited was the lead manager. Bellzone, an AIM-listed company, is developing two iron ore and nickel/copper assets in Guinea, West Africa. The Kalia iron deposit, a 50mtpa iron ore operation, is the company's flagship project.

CALGARY, ALBERTA As previously announced, TVI and TG World have entered into an Arrangement Agreement whereby holders of TG World shares will receive 0.458 of a common share of TVI for each TG World share held. The Arrangement is subject to approval of

One of the Polish miners institutional investors called on the copper producer to hand back its entire 2010 profit of $1.6bn as a dividend

AQM Copper Inc. announces that it has filed an independent technical report with regulatory authorities, in support of the resource estimate announced […]