Oxiana

The deal, OZ's largest 100% acquisition since it emerged from the wreckage of the merger between Oxiana Ltd. and Zinifex Ltd. after the global financial crisis, could more than double the company's resources of copper and gold and consolidate its land holdings in the Gawler Craton, a geological region of South Australia which also holds OZ's main Prominent Hill asset and BHP Billiton Ltd.'s massive Olympic Dam mine.

OZ Minerals Buys Copper Project David Fickling 2011

As it happened, impoliteness came naturally to Robert Byron, and he employed it frequently in his masterpiece, "The Road to Oxiana."

Five Best: Larry McMurtry Larry McMurtry 2011

If the bible of modern travel writers is Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana despite its dyspeptic way with foreigners, the quiet exemplar for nature-writers has been JA Baker's The Peregrine, whose descriptions of this ferocious raptor, like Robert Byron's essays on architecture, are a wonder of poetic exactitude.

Colin Thubron on the literature of place 2011

At Ozgon we stopped to explore the ancient minaret and the mausoleum where the rulers of the Qarakanids, a long-extinct warlike people of Turkish origin, lie buried: just the sort of places Robert Byron, in his Road to Oxiana, sought out so single-mindedly in 1936 from Persia to Afghanistan.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

At Ozgon we stopped to explore the ancient minaret and the mausoleum where the rulers of the Qarakanids, a long-extinct warlike people of Turkish origin, lie buried: just the sort of places Robert Byron, in his Road to Oxiana, sought out so single-mindedly in 1936 from Persia to Afghanistan.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The company, created from the merger of two smaller miners in June 2008, inherited a debt burden from its predecessor Oxiana, which borrowed to cobble together a network of mines.

Chinese Gather Up Mining Resources Abroad 2009

OZ Minerals posted a A$2. 5 billion full-year loss Friday, compared with a year-earlier net profit of A$305. 8 million by Oxiana, which merged with Zinifex in July last year to create OZ Minerals.

OZ Minerals Gets Extension on Loans 2009

The deal will require Zinifex shareholders to vote in favor of receiving 3.1931 Oxiana shares for every Zinifex share they own, while Oxiana shareholders won't be required to vote.

Australian Miner Oxiana to Buy 2008

With the increased strength of a combined Oxiana and Zinifex, "we can start looking at larger ones offshore that before we weren't able to look at," Mr. Michelmore said.

Australian Miner Oxiana to Buy 2008

The new company will aim to grow through exploration and acquisition and will look at potential large purchases in South America, Africa, other than Western Africa, and South East Asia, where Oxiana is already firmly established, Mr. Michelmore said.

Australian Miner Oxiana to Buy 2008