January 10, 2018 Electric cars market threatened by potential cobalt tax hike in Congo The nation, responsible for about two thirds of global output, plans to increase tax on cobalt to 5% from 2%.
January 10, 2018 Giant Bougainville mine restart stalls on moratorium over fears of civil unrest The Bougainville government has imposed an indefinite moratorium on mining at the controversial Panguna site — once the world's biggest open-pit copper mine.
January 10, 2018 Here are the key levels in gold & gold miners Gold stocks blew past their 200-day moving averages, gold over $1300/oz. Now let's take a technical look and focus on key support and resistance targets.
January 10, 2018 Centamin jumps on better-than-expected gold output estimates The Egypt-focused gold miner also expects solid growth this year. It’s targeting 580,000 ounces in production, up from an estimate of 550,000-560,000 ounces.
January 9, 2018 Congo’s Gécamines urges Gov’t to revise 16-year-old mining code The World Bank-supported mining legislation was introduced to attract investment into copper and cobalt projects from global miners including Glencore Plc, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. and China Molybdenum Co. Gécamines claims country…
January 9, 2018 Growth of European gold-backed ETFs outpaces U.S. funds in 2017 -WGC Though North America contained more than half the amount of global exchange-traded fund holdings, European funds added the most to their gold-backed ETFs last year.
January 8, 2018 Equinox Gold to start full-scale construction at Brazilian mine The Canadian miner wants to increase production to 135,000 ounces of gold per year.
January 8, 2018 More important than gold’s bottoming price Time is more important than price. The time for a given move is up and the price reverses. When is gold likely to finally bottom?
January 8, 2018 Gold dips further from 3-1/2 month peak as dollar fights back Dollar weakness, which continued into early January after its biggest annual drop since 2003, had helped gold registred last week a fourth straight weekly gain for the first time since…
January 5, 2018 Peru’s environmental deregulation to spur more mining-related protests: analysts The approval of the supreme decree 042-2017 in December might generate more unrest.
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