January 20, 2020 Anglo American goes back to fertilizers with Sirius Minerals’ $527 million buy The move throws a much-needed lifeline to the British junior behind a huge fertilizer project.
January 17, 2020 Fresh high for iron ore price as Chinese steel breaks records Crude steel output was just shy of 1 billion tonnes in 2019, up 8.3%.
January 17, 2020 LME stock surge grounds high-flying nickel, but for how long? London Metal Exchange inventory has more than doubled in the space of little more than a month.
January 17, 2020 Gold stocks wavering Stock traders must remain wary until speculators’ extreme gold-futures positioning finally gets normalized through big selling.
January 17, 2020 American Battery Metals signs LOI for Elk gold project, stock up 16% The Elk project has a resource estimate comprising 442,600 ounces of gold in the measured and indicated categories.
January 17, 2020 Palladium tops $2,500 an ounce in biggest one-day surge since 2008 The metal is headed for its best week since 2001 and showing little sign of slowing down.
January 17, 2020 Graph: Low inventories to frustrate zinc bears Stocks of zinc in LME warehouses are close to 20-year lows.
January 17, 2020 Kirkland’s $3.4bn bid for Detour wins backing from proxy advisory firms Chances of deal going ahead bolstered.
January 17, 2020 Lynas’ rare earth licence renewal in Malaysia challenged in court The lawsuit challenges the Malaysian government's decision to renew the company’s operating licence last year.
January 17, 2020 Rio Tinto readies to close world’s biggest diamond mine The miner expects to see production of rough diamonds drop from 17 million carats last year to 12-14 million in 2020 as a result.
US urges partners and allies to increase critical minerals supply chain resiliency Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hosted his counterparts in Washington to discuss solutions to secure and diversify supply chains for critical minerals. January 12, 2026 | 03:08 pm