December 2, 2014 Water, human rights and reputations – managing the impacts of mining projects What’s the connection between access to water, human rights and mining projects? It’s a complicated area where the vast challenges that lie ahead can only increase as the century progresses.
December 1, 2014 Guatemala’s huge mining royalty hike makes Tahoe unhappy The country’s congress passed Friday legislation to increase mining royalties from 5% to 10%.
December 1, 2014 UK passes historic transparency law for oil, gas and mining companies The law provides a standard for the US to follow in finalizing its own rules requiring payment disclosure
November 30, 2014 These three charts should terrify precious metals investors In this brief follow-up piece, I will show three long-term chart patterns that could have very bearish implications for gold and silver if they play out.
November 29, 2014 Waiting for Godot Alternatively, watching paint dry. That’s how it has felt this week with gold’s volatility slowing to a crawl ahead of Thanksgiving yesterday and the Swiss gold referendum on Monday.
November 28, 2014 Copper hits 4-year low in New York End of strike at Peru’s biggest copper mine and weaker oil prices drove Dr. Copper goes to the ICU.
November 28, 2014 Rio Tinto cuts spending, defers capex, keeps dividend The mining giant said it was committed to giving significantly more money back to shareholders in 2015 despite a severe drop in iron ore prices.
November 28, 2014 Deep-sea miner Nautilus to get $113m of escrowed funds The sum will be given on the completion of the sale of 15% of its Solwara 1 project to an entity nominated by Papua New Guinea.
November 27, 2014 Chile’s mining sector to double energy demand by 2025 These are not very good news for the energy-starved copper producing nation.
November 27, 2014 Mariana Resources down after dumping copper-gold project in Peru Company say it would focus on core projects.
Copper price heads toward $12,000 a ton as banks predict further gains With year-end approaching, copper on the London Metal Exchange is up nearly 40%, marking its biggest annual gain since 2009. December 22, 2025 | 07:00 am
