September 11, 2016

NASA’s latest mission may tell us whether asteroid mining is really a go

OSIRIS-REx will collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth, in what it could be a pivotal step for firms currently planning to tap into the space mining…

September 9, 2016

Norilsk: A blood red river runs through it

River near the eponymous city of world's top nickel and palladium miner turns crimson.

September 6, 2016

Platinum, palladium prices pop as pay talks peter out

South African labour union that led a bruising 20-week strike in 2014 declares dispute with top producers over 50% wage hike demands.

September 1, 2016

Anglo’s top shareholder to call vote on assets sale plan

South Africa's Public Investment Corporation (PIC), which owns 14.5% of Anglo, believes the mining giant may not realize the full value of its assets.

August 23, 2016

Investing in the new resource bull market

After four grinding years of falling metal prices and vanishing market capitalizations, we have seen a stunning shift in market sentiment since mid-January, says Matt Geiger of MJG Capital. Multiple…

August 18, 2016

SA’s mining leadership needs to grasp opportunities missed in the last commodity boom – SRK

Signs of resurgence in platinum, a stronger gold price and growing coal exports to India should be triggers for South Africa’s mining leadership to grasp the opportunities that it missed…

August 17, 2016

Four China charts to turn you into a mining bull

And one that's ultra-bearish.

August 15, 2016

Hedge funds up bullish platinum, palladium bets near record

Large scale futures speculators and PGM investors in physically-backed exchange traded funds are taking wildly different views of the outlook for the metals.

August 14, 2016

Anglo’s top shareholder could reduce it to diamond-only miner

South Africa's state pension fund is pushing Anglo to spin off all its assets in the country, including the miner's coveted platinum mines.

August 14, 2016

Draft bill says list in Harare if you want to mine in Zimbabwe

None of the foreign-owned platinum miners operating in the world's number three producer of the precious metal is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.