Karl Heilman

• Royal Gold Acquires Piece of Penasquito

  By Karl Heilman  |  December 29, 2006

  Royal Gold announced today it will pay $100 million for a 2% royalty in Goldcorp-Glamis' mineral rich Penasquito project.

• Norsk and Statoil to Create World's Largest Driller

  By Karl Heilman  |  December 18, 2006

  In a proposed merger today, Statoil will obtain all Norsk Hydro energy assets, creating the world's largest offshore driller worth an estimated $93 billion.

• Peter Hambro Russian Operations Check Out Thus Far

  By Karl Heilman  |  December 14, 2006

  After two weeks of sliding shares, Peter Hambro Mining announced today that the Russian resource watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, had cleared the company's primary assets in the Amur region.

• Teck Invests $25M in Deep Sea Miner Nautilus

  By Karl Heilman  |  December 7, 2006

  Teck Cominco became the third major miner to take a stake in the first company to commercially begin exploration on the ocean floor - shares have more than doubled since October.

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  By Karl Heilman  |  December 6, 2006

  How Uranium Enrichment Works (sub-page 2)(all info lifted from http://www.world-nuclear.org/education/nfc.htm, working on permission/rights)To prepare uranium for use in a nuclear reactor, it undergoes the steps ...

• DRDGold Closes Fiji Mine Citing High Costs

  By Karl Heilman  |  December 5, 2006

  DRDGold's Australasian subsidiary, Emperor Mines, announced the closure of the 71 year old Vatukoula gold mine as DRD's cost concerns continue to mount.

• Russia Resource Watchdog to Revoke 5 Peter Hambro Licenses

  By Karl Heilman  |  November 29, 2006

  News emerged today that Russia's Federal Service for the Oversight of Natural Resources plans to revoke five of the company's mining licenses for the alleged failure to fulfil licensing terms.

• Jon Nadler Gets In-Depth on Gold

  By Karl Heilman  |  November 27, 2006

  Bullion analyst, Jon Nadler, speaks with Resource Investor in an exclusive interview about gold's direction, price, the dollar, China and much more.

• DRDGOLD to Proceed With $14M Claim Against JCI

  By Karl Heilman  |  November 22, 2006

  JCI's legal woes continued today as South Africa's fourth largest gold producer said it planned to proceed with its $14 million claim, which DRD says is still unsettled.

• Possible Reforms Coming to Mongolian Windfall-Tax Bill

  By Karl Heilman  |  November 17, 2006

  A draft bill has been submitted to the Mongolian Parliament that would raise the cut-off price of gold falling under the tax from $500/oz to $650/oz.