December 12, 2022 SolGold shares dive despite raising $36m with Jiangxi backing The miner is said to be at the centre of a bidding war between Jiangxi, China’s largest copper miner on the one side, and a possible BHP-Newcrest alliance on the…
December 11, 2022 Gold objects found in Troy were mass-produced, travelled great distances Gold in objects from Troy, Poliochni and Ur in Mesopotamia have the same geographic origin and were traded over great distances.
December 9, 2022 Ex-JPMorgan gold trader found guilty in spoofing trial Christopher Jordan was convicted of wire fraud affecting a financial institution by a federal jury in Chicago.
December 9, 2022 Gold stocks surging back The gold miners’ stocks are surging back, amplifying their metal’s gains in a strong mean-reversion rally.
December 9, 2022 Turquoise Hill shareholders approve Rio Tinto’s $3.3bn buyout bid The vote clears the way for Rio Tinto to gain more autonomy over Oyu Tolgoi, which is 66% owned by Turquoise Hill and 34% by the Mongolian government.
December 9, 2022 Deutsche Bank seeks to re-join key gold trading club in London Re-joining the LBMA doesn’t signal a change in strategy, but it may help Deutsche Bank expand its precious-metals business.
December 9, 2022 World Gold Council sees positive 2023 outlook for gold amidst global uncertainty Despite an “unusually high level of uncertainty” surrounding consensus expectations for 2023, on balance, a “mixed set of influences implies a stable but positive performance for gold,” the WGC says.
December 9, 2022 Pakistan closer to letting Barrick Gold proceed with $7bn project The copper-gold mine would be one of the largest foreign investments in Pakistan and one of Barrick’s key projects for this decade.
December 8, 2022 Cordoba sells 50% stake in Colombian project to China’s JCHX for $100m The Alacran project is positioned to be the largest copper mine in Colombia in the near future.
December 8, 2022 Ascot drills 488 g/t Au at Big Missouri deposit, its best gold intercept since 2017 These results give the company confidence that "there is more gold to be discovered outside the existing resource model at Big Missouri.”
China pledges to control steel output during 2026-2030 period In the first 11 months of 2025, China's crude steel output fell 4% from a year earlier. December 27, 2025 | 08:20 am
