The company warned that recent flooding caused by heavy rainfall in northern Australia will continue to restrict its uranium production for the year.
See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page504?oid=143022&sn=Detail&pid=92730.…
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Rio Tinto Ltd has taken complete ownership of Canadian uranium company Hathor Exploration. Rio on Thursday said it had compulsorily acquired a remaining 7.9 million shares not voluntarily offered after it made a $C654 million …
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Consolidation continues to be a key theme in the uranium sector. Shortly after Rio Tinto Ltd. took control of Hathor Exploration Ltd., Chinese nuclear giant China Guangdong Power Group has made a friendly offer for …
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Rio Tinto’s chief executive Tom Albanese said that he would lobby Canada to ensure it was the operator of the Roughrider uranium project in Saskatchewan, despite legal hurdles, after its successful takeover of Hathor.
At …
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It may seem somewhat audacious for a company with a market value of $16 million to propose a world-leading energy project nearly one hundred times its value. But, says Petratherm managing director Terry Kallis, if …
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It seems to be a “Hobson’s choice” par excellence! As global climate change talks continued in Durban, South Africa’s leadership was faced with a “conundrum” – does the country continue burning-up the world by depending …
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Rio Tinto is set to “rough ride” over a promising eponymous uranium deposit in Canada’s Athabasca Basin.
This will mark a re-entry by the UK mining giant into uranium exploitation in Canada – the world’s …
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s ruling Labor party will debate lifting the ban on the sales of uranium to India at its conference next month, a decision unlikely to be welcomed by the Greens.
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The UK’s “eccentric” determination to build new nuclear power means it is not fit to take part in the “third industrial revolution” of switching to clean renewable energy, according to one of the world’s most …
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BHP Billiton holds its Australian AGM on Thursday 17 November. A coalition of organisations including London Mining Network has produced an ‘alternative annual report’: BHP Billiton – Dirty Energy.
To read the alternative report, …
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Ridding the world of nuclear threats?
The central Asian state of Kazakhstan was among the first to ban all nuclear weapons testing on its territory. Last month the government established the world’s first international nuclear …
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Rio outbids Cameco for Hathor Exploration
Rio Tinto is expanding its presence in Canada with an all-cash offer to acquire Hathor Exploration, which owns the Roughrider uranium deposit in Saskatchewan. See http://www.mining.com/2011/10/19/rio-outbids-cameco-for-hathor-exploration/.
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