January 11, 2021 Zimbabwe gold deliveries tumble nearly a third in 2020 Gold sales to country's sole buyer and exporter of bullion Fidelity Printers and Refiners fell 31% to 19 tonnes last year.
January 11, 2021 Emesent technology helps Petra Diamonds save on ore pass remediation Highly accurate point cloud data sets from a Hovermap scan allowed mine engineers to visualize the condition of ore passes for the first time and avoid spending $350,000, on remediation.
January 11, 2021 Samarco starts iron ore shipments to Europe BHP and Vale controlled company started on Monday its first shipment since Fundão dam tragedy.
January 11, 2021 Mongolia may revoke Rio Tinto’s plan for Oyu Tolgoi The government is considering cancelling and replacing the development and financial plan for the giant copper mine.
January 11, 2021 New Found Gold hits shallow high-grade in Keats step-out Highlights include 10.4 metres of 22.5 g/t gold from 11.7 metres and 15.9 metres of 31.4 g/t gold starting at 45 metres.
January 11, 2021 Jim Bob Moffett, co-founder of Freeport, dies at 82 On his watch, the company rode an unprecedented commodities boom, expanding to challenge Codelco as the world’s biggest copper miner.
January 10, 2021 Canadian company’s exploration rights in Peru hanging by a thread After granting exploration mineral rights to a subsidiary of Tesoro Minerals, Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines is revisiting its decision.
January 10, 2021 Scientists use microwave oven to turn coal into graphite Nano-graphite was obtained from coal by using copper foil, glass containers and a conventional household microwave oven.
January 8, 2021 The periodic table of commodity returns U.S. Global Investors traces 10 years of commodity price performance.
January 8, 2021 Buchans and Boliden to advance VMS project The company has re-logged more than 154,000 metres of archived drill core from approximately 850 drill holes.
Argentina’s cradle of Malbec wine is warming up to copper mining The San Jorge copper-gold project, controlled by Zug-based Zonda Metals, would be a first for Mendoza. December 18, 2025 | 10:49 am