September 13, 2016 Platinum price boost as top producer shuts down smelter Anglo American Platinum forced to stockpile concentrate and shut down smelter in South Africa responsible for one fifth of its refined platinum output.
September 13, 2016 Freeport finally free to focus on copper Sells Gulf oil assets for $2 billion, bringing asset sales for the world's no 1 copper miner this year to $6 billion.
September 12, 2016 Six workers safely rescued from South African abandoned gold mine South Africa is believed to have approximately 6,000 abandoned mines and between 8,000 and 30,000 illegal miners across the country.
September 12, 2016 Copper price crunch Copper falls to three-month low as global economic fears mount and hedge funds add 55% to bearish futures bets to second highest on record.
September 11, 2016 Los Bronces miners down tools Miners at one of Chile's largest copper operations walked off the job on Friday morning after rejecting the majority-owner's final offer in collective wage talks.
September 11, 2016 Stars aligning for platinum price Study predicts fifth year of growing deficits and halving of above ground stocks as strikes in top producer South Africa loom.
September 11, 2016 South African mining output falls sharply PGMs down nearly 10% and manganese production down 24%.
September 11, 2016 NASA’s latest mission may tell us whether asteroid mining is really a go OSIRIS-REx will collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth, in what it could be a pivotal step for firms currently planning to tap into the space mining…
September 9, 2016 Trilogy follows Kennecott’s footsteps in Alaska A century later, a new high-grade mining story in Alaska is emerging and has quietly attracted an incredible list of backers including Electrum Group, Paulson and Co, Baupost Group, and…
September 9, 2016 Mongolia readies to revive its giant Tavan Tolgoi coal mine Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi (ETT), the state-owned company that holds the license to the deposit, has already begun evaluating bids and calculating the potential economic benefits of restarting it.
Namib Minerals to restart mothballed Zimbabwe gold mine in February Redwing currently has an estimated 2.5 million ounces of gold and is the largest resource base in the group's Zimbabwean portfolio. December 19, 2025 | 07:08 am
