December 21, 2016 Innovative Canadian exploration company on the move to discover high-grade zinc, gold and copper When a mineral processing plant runs out of ore near by, its days are numbered. The capital equipment often becomes nothing more than a tax write-off. The businesses and people…
December 21, 2016 Emissions laws will drive record increases in global platinum production to 2020 — report Global platinum mine or metal content in ore production is set to rise from 6.4 million ounces in 2015 to 6.7 million ounces by 2020, representing compound annual growth rate…
December 21, 2016 These were the top Canadian mining topics of 2016 Commodity price recovery; King Coal on the way out; mining tech on the way in — among the most covered issues this year.
December 20, 2016 Venezuela misses payout to Spokane gold junior Gold Reserve says initial $300m payment from Venezuela government under $770m copper-gold project seizure settlement "expected in the next few days."
December 20, 2016 Newly found ‘ghost octopods’ at risk from deep-sea mining This as the creature lays its eggs on the dead stalks of sponges, attached to rocky crusts, which are rich in metals like manganese.
December 20, 2016 Applying soft-rock mining concepts in hard-rock mining CAT launched a fully mechanized longwall system for continuous mining of flat and tabular deposits.
December 19, 2016 Copper price correction in full swing Profit-takers push copper price down more than 3%.
December 19, 2016 Canadian Wealth Minerals to acquire Chile’s Laguna Verde lithium project The project, known as Laguna Verde, is located in the country’s north, known for its vast salt flats under which experts say there is enough of the commodity to supply…
December 19, 2016 Vale to sell fertilizer business to Mosaic for $2.5 billion Mosaic has agreed to acquire most of Vale's phosphate assets in Brazil, its stake in Peru's Bayovar mine and the firm’s Kronau potash project, in Canada.
US raises Graphite One loan to $2.1B Graphite Creek is described by the US Geological Survey as the largest graphite deposit in the country. December 19, 2025 | 07:43 am
