The system has been developed with the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining, an organisation that develops materials technologies.
The report noted that among shares of companies in the minerals and mining space, ARLP displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
The report noted that among shares of companies in the minerals and mining space, RNO displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
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The report noted that among shares of companies in the minerals and mining space, PVR displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
The purchases included the Canada-based R Wales group of companies, which makes specialist rubber and wear resistant linings for the mining, minerals processing and oil sands industries.
The Halkidiki area has a long history of mining for gold and other minerals, making it the centre of frequent bitter debates between residents and politicians.
Darby, 34, holds a minerals mining degree from Exeter University in Britain and did post-graduate work in Japanese studies at Kobe University.
Wolf Minerals hopes to begin mining at Hemerdon in 2014 and once open, it is believed the mine will be the fourth largest tungsten resource in the world.
Ouyang advocates eventually mining the moon for minerals such as titanium and for potential nuclear fuels such as helium-3.
China began mining rare earth minerals in the 1980s, and by the mid-90s was well surpassing the U.S. in production.
That was the year the government was formulating a draft mining charter, proposing that companies be at least 26% black-owned in order to get a government mining license. (The draft became law in 2005.) Since then Motsepe has diversified, swallowing up or forming partnerships with several other old mining companies and adding a swath of minerals: precious metals (platinum and its cousins), nickel, chrome, iron, manganese and coal.
These new mining firms, like Paladin Resources and Strathmore Minerals, have yet to show earnings or revenue.
The billionaires are hoping that the real financial returns, which are decades away, will come from mining asteroids for platinum group metals and rare minerals.
The company is engaged in exploration for, and mining and sale of coal, copper and other minerals.
Exxon Mobil is engaged in exploration for, and mining and sale of coal, copper and other minerals.
Hill did his homework and discovered a Toronto-based zinc mining company called Hudbay Minerals .
The high prices fetched for copper, gold and rare-earth minerals are leading to a surge in interest in mining the ocean floor.
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Back on land, mining-company engineers say new techniques, such as dissolving minerals and sucking them up through a pipe or extracting ore with high-powered water jets, could increase recoverable reserves.
One reason, argues Ian Maxwell of Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, an investment bank, is that only the biggest firms can afford to get over the high barriers to entry in the high-return, low-risk niches of the mining business: iron ore, alumina, diamonds and industrial minerals.
He believes that focusing on mining self-sustaining minerals would be more beneficial than trying to harvest and then transport helium-3.
And most of this is from mining and oil companies, which have little choice but to go where the minerals are.
The Department of Minerals and Energy has said it will issue new prospecting licences within six months of application, and mining ones within one year, and the pace has accelerated in recent months.
Other winners include Northgate Minerals, up 88%, and Mesabi Trust, a company whose income is derived from iron ore mining in Minnesota.
Several gold funds, including U.S. Global Investors World Precious Minerals ( UNWPX) and Midas ( MIDSX), posted double-digit percentage declines last quarter because mining stocks fell in value.
Workers start auto mining at the beginning of the game, and the base is automatically rallied to the minerals.
Vancouver, Canada-based precious metals mining company Wheaton River Minerals (amex: WHT - news - people ) and San Francisco-based civil engineering and design firm URS (nyse: URS - news - people ) both remained on the top buy list from two weeks ago.
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