Posts Tagged ‘the-biggest’

- Peru's government has chosen three international consultants to review the paralysed $4.8bn Conga gold and copper mine, the biggest single investment in the country's history. Full story

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RENO -- Lawyers for an environmental group and Native American tribes trying to block another expansion at one of the biggest gold mines in North America say the U.S. government -- in concert with the largest gold company in the world -- is making an... Full story

The tremendous rise that has occurred in the price of silver could be coming to an end. Full story

Bloomberg News reports that Hecla Mining, the biggest silver producer in the United States, has agreed to pay $263 million to settle one of the country's biggest Superfund lawsuits: Hecla’s payment, including interest, will be made to the federal government, the  Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe and the state of  Idaho , resolving claims stemming from waste discharged from its mining operations, the U.S. Justice ... Full story

The president and CEO of Jake Mining says the company is in talks with seven or eight foreign groups to develop what could become one of the biggest mines in the Philippines Full story

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is the biggest derivatives issuer of all U.S. banks, but it is busy below the radar, loading up its vaults with 50 troy ounce platinum bars. JPMorgan has been a large net physical platinum buyer in 2011, and it was also a big buyer in 2010. Full story

Spot prices are on course for a 6.5 percent decline in January, which would be the biggest monthly fall since a 7-percent drop in December 2009. Selling is largely a consequence of a current run of positive economic data Full story

Gold fell in New York to the lowest settlement price in seven weeks on speculation that European Union leaders will stabilise the region?s economy, eroding the appeal of the metal as a haven. The euro was headed for the biggest weekly gain against the Full story

Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Gold rallied from the biggest weekly drop since May as concerns that Europes sovereign-debt crisis may worsen spurred demand for a haven. Silver and palladium climbed by the most in a week Full story