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  • Canada eyes India s minerals - TORONTO (Commodity Online): The world is eyeing India’s minerals at the global mining conference being held in Canada. At the meet, several firms have expressed their desire to enter the Indian mining sector and as part of this Ontario province has
  • Canada's first diamond exchange to go live - TORONTO (Commodity Online): The Diamond Bourse of Canada has announced that it will be fully operational by the end of this month. Since the official opening of Canada's first diamond exchange in January, its management and staff have been hard at work
  • Diamond heist triggers panic in Antwerp - SURAT (Commodity Online): After Surat diamond traders faced a humiliating arrest and subsequent inquiry in China over alleged smuggling of diamonds, this week a diamond trader’s family from Surat was robbed of diamond worth crores at gun point in
  • Essar to buy West Virginia coal firm - NEW DELHI (Commodity Online): The hunt is almost over for India’s steel giant Essar Group. After months of search to buy small coal firms, Essar has finally zeroed in on Trinity Coal Partners. The Indian company will buy Trinity for $600 million. A
  • Merrex Announces Jubilee Drill Results - Gregory Isenor, P.Geo., President and CEO of Merrex Gold recently announced that the Jubilee Zinc Project continues to deliver encouraging diamond drill results. 'We are pleased to announce that our 50% owned Jubilee Zinc has again delivered very
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  • Aurox Atlas merger - Atlas Iron has announced its intention to merge with fellow miner Aurox Resources.
  • Bringing space technology back to earth for Australian mining industry - Scientists involved in CSIRO's Minerals Down Under Flagship are transferring technologies developed for space exploration and mining on the Moon and Mars, into new applications for the Australian mining industry.
  • Cougar signs UCG joint venture with Ignite for Gippsland brown coal - Cougar Energy has signed a joint venture with Ignite Energy Resources with an eye to developing an Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) project in Victoria's Gippsland region.
  • Enware releases spill containment basins - Enware Safe-Equip has released the Storm Sentinel catch basins for onsite spill containment.
  • Griffin debt grows - Griffin Coal’s failure to meet royalty payments has added to its debt woes.
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  • De Beers reduces African Diamonds stake - African Diamonds accuses the diamond giant of breaching FSA rules by not revealing sale.
  • Hargreaves and UK Coal in talks - Hargreaves Services plc has confirmed that it is exploring a potential merger of its deep coal mines with UK Coal plc. The statement follows the latter company's revelation on Tuesday that it is in takeover discussions
  • PDAC 2010: Know no limits - Everything in Canada is big, compared with the UK that is. The buildings, roads and cars all seem on a different scale, and the PDAC it seems, does not want to be the exception to the rule.
  • PDAC 2010: Prospectors - a dying breed? - The first day of the 2010 PDAC convention got off to something of a slow start, despite (or perhaps because of) the continuing good weather.
  • PDAC 2010: sending a message - With the sun still shining, the 2010 PDAC convention finally got into its stride in its second day