July 11, 2018

Experts come up with plan for protecting deep-sea life from mining

An international group of researches have recommended 18 quantitative metrics that regulators can use to assess seabed mining projects.

July 10, 2018

Gabriel Resources President and CEO Jonathan Henry leaves the company

Jonathan Henry has resigned from his position as President, CEO and as a Director of Gabriel to pursue other opportunities with immediate effect, the company said.

July 9, 2018

CHART: Copper, nickel, zinc prices – plenty upside just to revert to mean

Even after two years of gains, industrial metals trade well below 10-year mean prices. Silver looks cheap, but gold, crude may be fully priced already.

July 9, 2018

Private equity firm to deploy $550 million into mining sector

Targeting close or ready for production.

July 4, 2018

Our four favourite charts from PWC’s mining industry survey

"He's my favourite."

July 4, 2018

Nautilus Minerals tanks on shipbuilding contract cancellation

Fresh setback for the company’s Solwara 1 project, expected to be the world’s first seabed gold, copper, silver mine.

July 2, 2018

CHARTS: Halfway through 2018 and the mining rally is over

“China’s buoyant mood is giving way to concerns around tightening credit and a slowing manufacturing sector."

July 1, 2018

Richest man in Mexico partners with Goldcorp

Minera Frisco and Goldcorp’s subsidiary Minera Peñasquito are joining forces in Zacatecas.

June 29, 2018

A self-exiled ex-fugitive is making Mexican billionaires nervous

Mining-union leader Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, who fled to Canada more than a decade ago after being accused of embezzlement, is on the short list for a senate seat in Mexico.

June 29, 2018

Chile injects $1bn into state-owned copper giant Codelco

The figure, though significant, is minor when taken in the context of Codelco’s $18 billion investment plan aimed at upgrading its aging mines and dealing with dwindling ore grades.