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  • Canada's Goldcorp to buy Andean for $3.2 billion (Reuters) - SYDNEY (Reuters) Canada's Goldcorp Inc (G.TO) agreed to buy gold miner Andean Resources Ltd (AND.TO) for C$3.6 billion ($3.2 billion), trumping a competing offer from rival Eldorado Gold Corp (ELD.TO) (EAU.AX). The takeover is the latest in a series of
  • Health fear: Up to 40 times more aluminium in formula milk than breast milk - When we people be convinced that breastfeeding is essential? A year out of your life to breast feed your child really isn't that bad. After a few months, it's becomes an absolute doddle, the baby enjoys it, you bond better, you lose weight like you'd
  • Hedging Your Bets With Silver and Gold - Mosseri and Loud - The Gold Report submits: Every day New York-based investment gurus Jeff Mosseri and Doug Loud make key decisions for their high net-worth clients. Many of those decisions involve strategically positioning investors in small- and micro-cap gold and silver plays. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, you will learn some of the names of those plays and how they use Mosseri and Loud as hedges against a failing economy.The Gold Report: Today, we're talking with Jeff Mosseri, president of New York-based Greystone Asset Management and a director of Axiom Capital, as well as Doug Loud, who is the executive director of both companies. How do you go about making your clients money? »
  • Stocks in London edge up; U.S. jobs data in focus - By Polya Lesova, MarketWatch FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Stocks in London traded marginally higher early Friday, as investors positioned themselves for U.S. jobs data that will offer more evidence on the state of the economic recovery. The U.K.
  • Why I'm Buying More Alloy Steel Shares - Alloy Steel International (AYSI.OB) is a nano cap company headquartered in Australia that uses a high tech, proprietary process to manufacture protective wear plates for mining equipment. Essentially, the company is a picks & shovels play on the mining
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  • Companies featured in the 27-08-10 issue of Mining Journal - All companies featured in the latest issue of the Mining Journal are listed below for your convenience.
  • Copper concentrate ‘seller’s market,’ Sumitomo Metal says - Copper concentrate will be in short supply for at least five years, forcing Sumitomo Metal Mining Co, Japan’s second-biggest smelter, to keep producing at a reduced rate, the company said.
  • Deals intensify - The pace of deal activity is intensifying in the mining and metals sector. The value of pending deals is already four times the US$40.6 billion generated in the first half of the year, and the pace of this activity "will continue to accelerate", according to Ernst & Young in its latest Global Mining & Metals Transactions Report.
  • Mixed news at San Jose - The drilling of a 38cm pilot hole had reached a depth of 25m by the end of Wednesday in the attempt to rescue 33 miners trapped underground since August 5 at the San Jose copper-gold mine in Chile.
  • Pan African generating strong cash flow - Pan African Resources plc, the South African gold miner, generated £18.3 million (US$28 million) in cash from operating activities in the year to end-June, boosting the bank balance to £12.8 million, over five times what it was a year ago.