July 15, 2015 BHP Billiton to take a $2.8 billion write-down on US assets With this impairment BHP will have written down its oil and gas business by more than $4 billion since 2011.
July 14, 2015 Only permanent supply cuts can lift metal prices The availability of cheap money has seen boards postpone hard decisions about uneconomic capacity says Macquarie in new report.
July 14, 2015 INFOGRAPHIC: Data shows investing is heavily biased by Geography For investors, there’s no place like home. Data shows that investors are heavily sector-biased based on where they live.
July 14, 2015 Congo’s Gecamines sells copper assets to Chinese for $52 million The deal increases Chinese miners presence in Congo, which is Africa’s top copper producer and the world’s largest producer of cobalt.
July 10, 2015 Scientists, environmentalists call for freeze in deep sea mining permits A group of scientists is asking international authorities to temporarily halt the approval of new underwater mining contracts until further environmental controls are put in place.
July 9, 2015 Mount Polley gets greenlight for a ‘restricted re-start’ Production is authorized at half the normal rate.
July 9, 2015 Chile’s Codelco to issue $2.5 billion in bonds amid copper prices collapse Though very few talk about it, Codelco is still suffering the consequences of a deal it signed with China's Minmetals back in 2006.
July 8, 2015 BHP, China Moly in final stretch for Barrick’s Zaldivar Zaldivar is across the road from BHP and Rio Tinto's Escondida in Chile, the world's largest copper mine.
July 8, 2015 UN Human Rights unit roasts Canada over mining, aboriginal treatment The human rights committee is currently meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of finalizing its report and is hearing from Canadian non-government groups, including Amnesty, and from the federal government.
July 8, 2015 INFOGRAPHIC – Crisis investing: How 14 asset classes performed in times of distress Today's infographic compares how 14 different asset classes have performed during the last five crises.
Chinese copper smelter, Antofagasta agree to record low fees Tough negotiations reflected a market facing abundant refining capacity but tight global ore supplies. December 22, 2025 | 12:20 pm
