Russia’s Federal Subsurface Resources Agency (Rosnedra) said JSC Acron, Eurochem and a consortium of JSC Silvinit and Rosoboronexport won the mineral deposit auctions held today.
Acron’s Verkhnekamsk Potassium Co won the rights to the first part of the Verkhnekamsk field with a bid of 16.802 bln roubles.

Moniker.com (http://www.moniker.com), an Oversee.net company and provider of Domain Asset Management(TM) services, today announced that it is bringing its live and online domain name auctions back to the Casino Affiliate Convention (CAC) Amsterdam. The exclusive live auction will take place onsite on Friday, April 4 at 5:30 p.m. in Amsterdam (11:30 a.m. US Eastern time; [...]

The highlight of the 19th Century Paintings sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam on Monday 14 April 2008 is a panoramic landscape in Luxemburg by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. The oil on canvas that was recently discovered in a private collection is probably one of the missing paintings from the series that the artist painted at the request [...]

A Triceratops skeleton will be on display at Christie’s auction show-room in Paris, for the next few weeks. The dinosaur, with its missing bones replaced by resin replicas, will be the star attraction at an auction in the French capital on 16 April.
Other lots include the skull of a sabre-toothed tiger, a titanosaur’s egg, the [...]

During the two day marathon auction in Paris, François Curiel, president of Christie’s Europe and Emmanuelle Vidal-Delagneau, auctioneer in charge of the sale, conducted an iconic auction during which landmark results were achieved and totalled € 17.9 million.
104 years after an auction devoted to Asian art took place at the Durand-Ruel gallery in Paris, the [...]

Thirty-five Turkish and foreign firms have applied to join the auction on natural gas distribution in Turkish capital of Ankara, for a period of 30 years.
“The U.S., Russian and European companies will compete in the auction to take place at Altinpark ANFA hall at 2 p.m. on March 14th,” Veysel Karani Demir, the DG of [...]

Bonhams has appointed a new specialist to complement its existing team in Amsterdam. Arie van Harwegen den Breems takes on the role of picture valuer in the Amsterdam Office.
A US national, Arie moved to the Netherlands in 1994 to work for Glerum Auctioneers in The Hague where he specialised in Old Master Paintings and Marine [...]

The Czech cabinet warned Wednesday that the European Commission’s proposal to begin auctioning CO2 emission credits from 2013 would hike energy prices and lower competitiveness for the Czech Republic’s industries, the Industry and Trade Ministry said. The Czech government would prefer the auctions introduced gradually after 2013, the ministry said in a statement.
Czech Prime Minister [...]