October 13, 2015

Codelco vows not to cut copper output even if prices keep falling

The world's No.1 copper miner will keep output targets and won't make major changes to its $25 billion investment plan.

October 13, 2015

Cree community looks on warily as De Beers scours North for diamonds

Diamond mines aren’t forever, and within four years the Victor Mine, De Beers’ first in Ontario, is expected to reach the end of its life.

October 13, 2015

UK local council pensions lose over $1 billion with coal crash

The decline in coal share prices has affected the pensions of millions of bus drivers, librarians, park attendants, school workers, housing officers and care workers, a new study from Platform…

October 8, 2015

Indonesia promises Freeport to extend Grasberg contract

The approval will include “the same rights and the same level of legal and fiscal certainty provided under its contract of work,” the company said without elaborating.

October 7, 2015

Mining stocks surge as end of commodity rout called

Morgan Stanley sees a "sharp reversal" in commodities with prices rising nearly 20% by 2017 making mining stocks "historically attractive".

October 6, 2015

Gahcho Kue is 70 percent complete

Over $1 billion to build.

September 28, 2015

China shocker drops copper price to 6-year low

Biggest drop in Chinese industrial profits on record spills red ink on mining stock boards – Freeport down 10% in massive volumes.

September 27, 2015

Cigar Lake mine officially starts production

Saskatchewan mine is the second largest high-grade undeveloped uranium deposit in the world.

September 25, 2015

Argentine judge lifts Barrick’s Veladero gold mine halt

He said the over 1,000 cubic metres of liquid cyanide spilled into a local river did not cause any environmental damage to justify keeping operations suspended.

September 24, 2015

Argentina’s presidential candidates want mining to be platform for country’s recovery

Argentina’s presidential election, the first to be decided in a second and final round since the constitution was changed in the 1990s, will be key for the country’s economy, particularly…