Venture makes mining application for Mt Lindsay
ASX-listed Venture Minerals Limited announced the submission of a Mining Lease Application for the Company's flagship Mt Lindsay Tin/Tungsten Project in northwest Tasmania. The MLA was submitted to the Registrar of Mines, Mineral Resources Tasmania on 15 September....
Hong Kong group takes stake in Mt Garnet project
Consolidated Tin Mines has secured a Hong Kong-based cornerstone investor for its Mt Garnet tin project in Queensland following an initial A$1.6 million placement in the emerging miner. Snow Peak International Investment took up the placement, the first tranche in a...
TNT Mines de-merger completed, IPO deferred
ASX-listed Minemakers Limited has announced the completion of the de-merger of its Tasmanian tin assets into TNT Mines Limited on 19 July. The planned move was originally announced last year, with the intention of listing TNT and raising A$10 million in an Initial...
Lower volumes, higher margins for Timah
Indonesia's PT Timah reported a 29% rise in consolidated sales and a more than doubling of net income to Rp 689 billion (US$79 million) in the first half of 2011, despite a fall in tin sales volumes. Refined tin sales by the state-controlled company in January-June...
Venture looks for Chinese partners
Australian miner Venture Minerals plans to start tin production from its Mount Lindsay project in Tasmania in 2013, in time to capture strong global demand for the metal, Managing Director Hamish Halliday told Reuters. Halliday said his company was in preliminary...
Celeste publishes first resource estimate for South Crofty
Celeste Copper Corporation, the Canadian listed company which in May announced an agreement to acquire a 25% stake in the South Crofty project in Cornwall, UK has published an initial estimate of mineral resources in five near surface deposits on the property. Using a...
Stellar completes Heemskirk project scoping study
ASX-listed Stellar Resources has published details of a new scoping study on the Heemskirk deposit near Zeehan, Tasmania, in which it currently has a 60% holding with Gippsland Limited. The project, scheduled for a 2014 start-up, could produce some 3,900 tpy of...
Kasbah reports positive drilling results, but fires contractor
Kasbah Resources has reported "excellent" results from latest exploration work at its Achmmach tin project in Morocco, including some very high grade drill holes in the Gap zone between two target areas which have already been better demarcated. However the...
MSC and Traxys may partner on DR Congo project
Traxys may work with Malaysia Smelting Corporation to develop tin mining in DR Congo, Bloomberg reported. The involvement of Traxys, the Luxembourg-based global trading group, was identified in a contract published on the website of the country’s mines ministry....