June 4, 2018

Metals merry-go-round: hiring picks up as prices recover

More hires are expected as brokers eye opportunities from China’s mainland exchanges opening to investors abroad.

June 4, 2018

Gold may hit $1,400 in ’19 on `powerful fuel’ of weak dollar

Gold may have posted two straight months of declines, but is set to shrug off the blues and rise in 2019 as the dollar weakens.

June 4, 2018

China’s Chinalco starts $1.3bn expansion of Peru copper mine

The investment will increase the mine's copper output by 45 percent by 2020, with the value of production exceeding $2 billion annually.

June 3, 2018

Judge orders Chinese company to stop mining activities in Ecuadorian town

A judge from the Ecuadorian province of Cuenca ruled that Ecuagoldmining South America S.A violated article 57 of the country’s Constitution.

June 3, 2018

World’s No. 4 iron ore miner wants to diversify its portfolio

The CEO of Fortescue Metals Group said that the company is working towards finding other commodities to mine.

June 1, 2018

Metal prices, financing, exploration and assays are all up

No longer under water.

June 1, 2018

Paulson nears launch of investor alliance to shake up gold sector -sources

The Shareholders Gold Council (SGC), expected to be launched as early as June, will have more than a dozen investors.

June 1, 2018

Silver miners’ Q1’18 fundamentals

The major silver miners’ stocks remain deeply out of favor, languishing near multi-year lows.

June 1, 2018

Canada’s Teck adopts new resource extraction technology

Teck displayed some of its high-tech approaches to mining at the recent B.C. Tech Summit.

June 1, 2018

Zimbabwe removes requirement for foreign mines to list locally

Mines Minister Winston Chitando had last month promised to remove the requirements, which he said caused panic among foreign mining firms.