January 26, 2015 Rio Tinto to drop Oyu Tolgoi $1.6bn royalty if expansion gets ok from Mongolia Documents obtained and verified by The Australian, show that Rio Tinto offered Mongolia to forsake a “net smelter return” of 2% cent of the project’s revenue.
January 26, 2015 Hedge funds raise bullish gold bets to 2-year high According to futures trading data hedge funds have amassed the largest bullish position since December 2012 when gold was trading above $1,700 an ounce.
January 26, 2015 Heiko Ihle: back to precious metals equity investing basics Investing in mining equities can get rather complicated but Heiko Ihle, managing director at H.C. Wainwright & Co., says precious metals equity investors need to focus on just three criteria:…
January 26, 2015 Kosovo miners return from underground, ending 3-day strike Hundreds of miners in Kosovo are back on shift following a three-day work stoppage to protest against the Kosovo government, which backtracked on an earlier decision to take control of…
January 25, 2015 Gold off to a good New Year start Gold started the new year on a happy note. It jumped up to a five month high…and it’s near a key moving average as some safe haven buying began.
January 24, 2015 Mining stocks fall as copper, iron ore price reach new lows Heavy selling across the board as commodities reach fresh multi-year lows, forecasts are slashed and weakness returns to precious metals.
January 23, 2015 World Bank: Commodities falling like it’s 1985 Organization predicts a rare occurrence in 2015: a decline in all nine commodity indices with industrial metals falling another 5%; precious metals down 3%.
January 22, 2015 Peruvian rare earth discovery richer than initially thought Geology consultants leading the project found the rare earth claim has the highest range of rare earth metals in Peru.
January 22, 2015 Colombian gold CEO involved in $970m laundering case arrested Prosecutors claim the gold company and its top executives are at the centre of a money-laundering scheme involving cocaine traffickers.
January 21, 2015 Fortuna Silver slumps 9% despite impressive drilling in Mexico Analyst downgrade sinks shares of Vancouver-based owner of fast-expanding polymetallic mines in Peru and Mexico.
Copper poised for best year since 2009 after December surge All six base metals on the LME are headed for annual gains in a year that’s seen an array of supply-side pressures. December 24, 2025 | 10:11 am
