Since the announcement of restarting tungsten and tin production at Hemerdon in the United Kingdon in 2007, Australian-based Wolf Minerals (ASX: WLF) has big hopes of starting the plan. The Devon mine is believed to be one of the world’s largest sources of tungsten and tin and the plan is possible since Tungsten is in [...]
The tungsten market has been quiet for ’09. Ferro-tungsten prices have been slowly creeping up due to short supply, so it is exploration as usual for the tungsten business. Tungsten exploration outside of China is critical, as the country has a monopoly on the metal used for military and aeronautical equipment.
Icon wants to get into the tungsten mining business as soon as possible. It certainly needs to get its hands on money, as it recorded an end-of-quarter cash balance of $53,000. For full story, click here
Icon wants to get into the tungsten mining business as soon as possible. It certainly needs to get its hands on money, as it recorded an end-of-quarter cash balance of $53,000. For full story, click here
Mineralised skarns at Victor, which were not exploited by historic mining, had significant potential to host economic tungsten and copper. For full story, click here
ASX-listed uranium company Uran has entered into an option to purchase the Victor tungsten project, in California. For full story, click here
European Ferro tungsten prices crept up for the week as buyers drew down inventories in Rotterdam. For a second week in a row, the Lunar New Year Holiday in China meant lack of supplies were coming out of the country.
Holiday retail sales were worse than anticipated. The jewelry market was hardest hit, luxury goods sales were down as much as 34%. However, the new Tungsten jewelry market faired exceptionally well over this holiday season.
Adex Mining Inc. announcef the completion of a mineralogy characterization test program for the recovery and extraction of tungsten, molybdenum, tin and indium at the Company’s Mount Pleasant Mine Property located in southwestern New Brunswick. For full story, click here
Jasper Mining Corporation has received additional analytical results from the bottom of holes 26 (previously released) and 39 from its 100% owned Isintok property. For full story, click here
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