December 31, 2013

‘Midas touch’ bacteria, gold roller coaster and risky countries among top stories of 2013

While 2013 will go down as the one when gold stop glittering and miners were forced to tighten their belts, our readers favoured a wide range of stories.

December 31, 2013

Turns out the world’s ‘oldest diamonds’ are just polishing compound

Researcher says it was a "terrible mistake."

December 27, 2013

Canadian miners among the most hurt in 2013

New mining listings in the Toronto Stock Exchange and its junior counterpart, the TSX-V, continue to dive.

December 18, 2013

South African labour: Unions at war

Numsa will openly recruit from NUM's membership, in direct violation of federation principles. Numsa tells opponents to 'go to hell.'

December 18, 2013

Massive diamond deposit said to be hiding beneath Antarctica’s icy hills

But scientists think the chance of the Antarctic kimberlite containing economically viable amounts of diamonds may be low.

December 17, 2013

2013 a ‘remarkably successful’ year for Kennady Diamonds, CEO says

Drilling results far exceeded expectations.

December 17, 2013

Russia’s Alrosa to export 36 million carats of diamonds in 2014

The miner believes rough diamonds prices will soar next year.

December 16, 2013

Miners should launch a gold cartel or risk losing everything, advises Stephan Bogner

It's no surprise that Stephan Bogner advises investors to hold physical metals outside the banking system, but he also advocates mining companies keeping gold on their balance sheets and forming…

December 16, 2013

Rio Tinto says Chinese now make ‘much higher quality’ mining equipment

The CEO of world number two miner Rio Tinto said the quality of Chinese mining equipment is catching up and in some instances surpassing that of the major US manufacturers.

December 12, 2013

Anglo American confirms turnaround plan, warns 2014 will continue to be tough

Cutifani said the firm has identified three "buckets" from which it plans to extract about $3.9 billion of extra earnings.