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MVP, SMC keeping Tampakan stakes

By Neil Jerome C. Morales | June 17, 2013 - 12:00am

Two of the largest Philippine conglomerates led by corporate rivals are keeping their minority shares in an Australian miner...

Business

Glencore AG to invest $600 million in Pasar

By Neil Jerome C. Morales | August 13, 2012 - 12:00am

The local copper smelter of Swiss trader Glencore International AG will finalize this year its decision to invest around $600 million for its expansion.

Business

Nihao okays capital restructuring

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | June 15, 2012 - 12:00am

Nihao Mineral Resources International Inc. has approved a capital restructuring program to wipe out P223.26 million in accumulated deficit as of end-2011.

Business

PASAR to resume copper processing

March 21, 2012 - 12:00am

The Philippines’ only copper smelter and refinery owned by a unit of Glencore International will resume copper processing by around middle of this year, six months after a fire halted its operations, a company...

Business

PASAR president assures firm is in for the long haul

By Lalaine Jimenea | March 16, 2012 - 12:00am

The Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corp (PASAR), the country’s only copper smelter and refinery located in this town, “is here to stay and intends to be in business for a long time,”...

Freeman Region

Macquarie Bank invests P312M in Nihao

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | March 6, 2012 - 12:00am

Australia’s Macquarie Bank Ltd. has acquired an initial 33 million shares of listed mining firm Nihao Mineral Resources International Inc. for P312.18 million.

Business

Nihao sells 150-M shares to Macquarie Bank

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | February 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Nihao Mineral Resources International Inc. said it has approved an agreement to sell up to 150 million shares to Macquarie Bank Ltd. for as much as $30 million.

Business

Nihao inks pact with Swiss firm, AGP for mining venture in Phl

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | September 29, 2011 - 12:00am

Nihao Mineral Resources International Inc. has forged an agreement with Switzerland-based mining and commodities trading firm Glencore International AG and AGP Industrial Corp. to jointly acquire and develop mining...

Business

Pasar hikes smelting, refining capacities

By Marianne V. Go | April 6, 2008 - 12:00am

Business

2 foreign firms to invest P96B in RP mine

By Marianne V. Go | March 30, 2007 - 12:00am

Indophil Resources NL and partner Xstrata Plc, the world’s fifth-largest miner, may spend about $2 billion (P96 billion) by 2010 to develop Southeast Asia’s...

Business