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Vedanta year EPS falls 7.1% on share issue

Vedanta Resources posted a 7.1% fall in annual underlying earnings per share despite stronger output, reflecting a share issue and higher minority interests. EPS for the 12 months to end March fell to 303.9 cents from 327 cents in the same period last year, while attributable profit fell 5.9 percent to $879 million, Vedanta said.

Xstrata launches hostile takeover for Indophil

Chalco takes over parent's assets worth $596m

Timah details capex, acquisition plans

Gladstone Nickel may sell stake in new refinery

Poseidon Nickel may include a refinery at Mt.Windarra

China earthquake closes half a million tonnes of zinc

MSC results boosted by tin price, hit by Koba problems

Nyrstar zinc output falls 3% in Q1

AfDB lends $500 million to Eskom for expansion

Hanzhong Bayi shuts 84,000t of zinc capacity on quake

Hanzhong Bayi Zinc Industry has shut 70 percent of its 120,000 tonne annual smelting capacity in China's Gansu province due to reduced power supplies following an earthquake in neighbouring Sichuan, a smelter official said.

Greenland govt supports aluminium plans

Alumina launches $300m convertible bonds offer

Chongqing Smelter running as normal

Supreme Court rules on Codelco subcontractors

Toyota & Honda aluminium alloy plants ok after quake

Zinifex says expects lower earnings in H2

Aluminium smelters face problems after China quake

Sichuan-based Aostar Aluminium and Emeishan Aluminium are facing electricity and alumina supply problems after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake damaged roads and power plants in the province. So far, the two smelters were maintaining normal production but there is potential for logistical problems, a source said.

Codelco restores production at Salvador

Pan Australian’s Laos project officially opens

Large 7.5 magnitude earthquake shakes China

Strike stops production at Namibia's Skorpion Zinc

China TV show criticises foreign mining investment

State-run China Central Television has run a show that sharply criticized foreign mining investors in China, and suggested the country might tighten restrictions over investment in the sector. The show focused primarily on Australian miner Sino Gold and its Jinfeng mine in Guangxi province, in southwestern China, which will be China's second-largest gold mine.

Norsk Hydro buys Alumafel for €77 million

Chalco to take 40% in Saudi Arabian smelter

Explosion at KCM’s Nkana smelter injures 9

Taseko’s Gibraltar Mine suffers electrical failure

Fresnillo raises £905 million in London IPO

KGHM net profit up 6 percent, as expected

Union & Peru govt fail to avert strike

Union leaders, congressional representatives and officials from Peru's government failed to reach a deal to avert a nationwide mining strike slated to start on Monday. The government was hoping unions could be persuaded to call off the walkout as dozens of heads of state will arrive in Peru next week to participate in a summit of European and Latin American leaders.

Toledo plans Berong Nickel expansion

Tin price boosts Abu Dabbab project

Union rejects new pay offer from Alpart

Metals X re-starts Renison, winds down Collingwood

Copper price prompts Rio to eye PNG mine restart

Rio Tinto has begun efforts to reactivate the Panguna copper mine in Papua New Guinea, almost 20 years after a secessionist rebellion forced its closure. Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper said it was studying a restart at a mining rate of between 20 million and 50 million tonnes of ore annually.

Nippon Mining: Chile mine start delayed to 2012