December 27, 2012 To become a major minerals producer, Venezuela’s biggest challenge is itself Venezuela has its eye on becoming a major minerals producer, though its capacity to do so is in question, according to Maplecroft's principal Latin America analyst James Lockhart-Smith.
December 27, 2012 Environmental audit gives West Canada placer gold miners failing grade Nearly three-quarters of Cariboo gold miners failed a “clandestine” audit on environmental standards, according to documents released through a British Columbia freedom of information request.
December 27, 2012 Rosenberg’s reasons to go for gold Despite the recent drops in gold prices, David Rosenberg, the chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff and former Chief North American Economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, is…
December 27, 2012 Will Papua New Guinea’s safest city survive the closure of Ok Tedi mine? The mining town of Tabubil, in Papua New Guinea, is facing the closure of the nearby Ok Tedi copper mine, an operation that currently employs nearly 2,000 people, most of…
December 27, 2012 Russian gold, Forex reserves rise to $532bn Russia's central bank has no immediate plans to diversify its foreign exchange holdings, Chairman Sergei Ignatyev said on last week
December 27, 2012 China and Japan could clash in 2013 Leading international relations expert says open warfare could break out between China and Japan next year
December 27, 2012 Schiff advises investors to forgo currencies for precious metals Euro Capital president advises investors to stay in gold despite recent downturn
December 27, 2012 Miners file South Africa’s biggest ever class-action lawsuit against gold giants South African miners believed to suffer from the world's highest tuberculosis rates
December 26, 2012 Gold is about to do something that no other asset has ever done: Jim Rogers Extremely unusual
Disruption and dislocation: LME metals’ year in seven charts Supply disruption and tariff dislocation have defined the London Metal Exchange base metals complex this year. December 23, 2025 | 07:58 am
