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The Ridgeway underground mine cave is located in the mineral-rich Cadia Valley province in central New South Wales. A gold and copper mine, it is 100% owned by Australia's Newcrest Mining, and is one of three operations owned by the company in the province. The others are Cadia East and Cadia Hill, the largest of the three. "The Ridgeway underground mine cave is located in the mineral-rich Cadia Valley province."Ridgeway is in the process of transitioning from the sub-level cave to a block cave beneath the existing mine. In 2007 the Newcrest board approved development of the Ridgeway Deeps block cave. It will be the first natural caving operation to be developed by Newcrest and will be the deepest block cave in Australia. The company says it is spending A$525m to develop it. The mineral resource at Ridgeway Deeps was re-estimated following a geological reinterpretation which yielded an increased resource of 20 million tons containing 0.5 million ounces of gold, and 0.05 million tons of copper. GEOLOGY AND RESERVES

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Rocketing metal prices have prompted miners to seek out deposits in nearly all corners of the globe, but Canada's Nautilus Minerals is gunning to be the first to pull gold and copper from the ocean floor.

"MANILA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Global miner Xstrata Plc (XTA.L) has boosted an estimate of mineral resources at its $5.2-billion Tampakan copper-gold project in the southern Philippines to 2.4 billion tonnes from 2.2 billion, the firm said on Tuesday."

"The giant Chilean Escondida mine produces more copper than anywhere on earth. Some 1.2m tonnes emerge from the BHP Billiton-run facility each year. For the largest miners, Escondida also serves as a key measure for world copper output. To meet global demand over the next decade, the industry "will have to add the equivalent of a new Escondida every 15 months", says Jean-Sebastien Jacques, head of copper at Rio Tinto, which owns a minority stake in the mine. First Quantum, a mid-tier copper miner, says that if China, India and Brazil were to reach EU levels of copper use by 2020, it would imply nine new Escondidas."

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"An eleventh-hour adjustment for copper will allow miners such as Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold and Newmont Mining to continue shipments. The regulation will allow exports of copper concentrate above or equal to 15% metal content. About 66 companies that have plans to process domestically will be allowed to export as well, Jero Wacik, energy and mines minister, told local reporters in Indonesia. "

Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd., China's second largest gold miner, said it has completed its initial feasibility study for developing a gold-copper mine owned by Far Southeast Gold Resources Inc.(FSGRI).

ndia has followed China in making strategic investments in Australian companies to secure long-term supplies of the minerals its factories need.

Shares in West Perth-based mineral explorer Avalon Minerals have risen 42.8 per cent after the company announced its first resource estimate for its Viscaria Copper Project, located 1200km north of Stockholm.

"Canada's mining giant Barrick Gold said Wednesday it has completed a planned 50-50 joint venture with an important Saudi Arabian miner to develop its copper mine in the country, a partnership the firm aims to replicate with other projects such as its halted Pascua Lama in South America."

"Teck issued a statement at the request of IIROC on behalf of The Toronto Stock Exchange stating that "it is not in discussions with Antofagasta in relation to any form of transaction, and there are no other corporate developments that justify any significant movement in its share price." Earlier Bloomberg issued an article citing unnamed sources that saying that the two miners are in early stage negotiations about a tie-up and that any agreement is dependent on the approval of the families that control both miners. "

The pan-European Dow Jones Stoxx 600 index (ST:SXXP: news, chart, profile) ended 0.9% lower to 277.59, with markets missing an upturn in the U.S. when crude-oil prices fell sharply. The metals sector was in full retreat as platinum futures tumbled for a second session amid worries about global auto sales, sparked by the $15.5 billion loss from General Motors, BMW's profit warning and weak July sales in the U.S. Copper futures also fell sharply, and copper miners had a difficult session. Kazakhmys (UK:KAZ: news, chart, profile) shares fell 9.5%, Xstrata (UK:XTA: news, chart, profile) shares fell 5.9% and Boliden (SE:BOL: news, chart, profile) lost 5.4%.

TORONTO, July 8 /CNW/ - TEAL Exploration & Mining Incorporated (TSX-"TL") (JSE-"TEL") ("TEAL") has announced the discovery of extensive copper mineralization in the greater Kasonta area adjacent to TEAL's Lupoto Copper Project, which forms part of TEAL's 60%-owned Kasonta-Lupoto Mines sprl ("Kalumines") mining licence area, situated close to Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ("DRC").

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If we keep following the ruling paradigm of sustained global economic growth, we will soon run out of cheap and plentiful metal minerals of most types.

n the context of the second session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management, ICMM has launched Minerals and Metals Management 2020, an action plan for chemicals management in the mining and metals sector.