November 19, 2014 Iron ore price enters freefall Iron ore price down more than 7% over two sessions to just above $70 as supply swamps China just as steel consumption falls for the first time in 14 years.
November 19, 2014 Peru blows up machines to scare away illegal gold miners Just weeks before the country hosts U.N.-sponsored climate talks.
November 19, 2014 Cliffs mulls closing Bloom Lake iron ore mine for lack of buyers Closing the mine will cost $650 million to $700 million over the next five years.
November 19, 2014 A Russian miner, a good camera, the arctic tundra: here’s the result Ivan Kislov is a young Russian mining engineer who spends his breaks taking breath-taking photographs of wild animals, mostly foxes, in the arctic tundra.
November 18, 2014 Strike at Peru’s top copper mine not hurting output: firm But unionized workers insist on claiming that Antamina's output would likely drop by at least 90%.
November 18, 2014 Dismal China data drops copper price back below $3 And if the Chinese government stops adding to its strategic reserves the price could fall towards $2.50 a pound says new research report.
November 18, 2014 South African miners to tackle lung disease claims They will look at compensation and medical care for workers with occupational lung disease or "silicosis."
November 18, 2014 India readies draconian gold import rules New measures to curb rocketing imports expected within days.
November 18, 2014 Uralkali stock plummets on evacuation of potash mine The world’s largest potash supplier had to evacuate workers from its Solikamsk-2 mine in Russia’s Perm region due to an increase in brine inflow.
Ioneer eyes bid for Rio Tinto’s US boron unit Boron, an element mineral with few producers, was added to the US list of critical minerals last month. December 12, 2025 | 02:49 pm
