October 10, 2014

Market Turbulence

This week has seen highly volatile equities (mostly down), bond yields sharply lower, the oil price hard down, and gold side-lined but recovering after a miserable month or two.

October 9, 2014

Centamin shares jump on Sukari gold mine results

The firm mined 93,624 ounces of the yellow metal in the three months to end September and it also maintained its full-year production forecast of 420,000 ounces of gold.

October 9, 2014

Costs of Mexico copper mine spill climbs to almost $140 million

Figure is based on preliminary assessments of the damage caused to water, flora, fauna, and wildlife, as well as official information on water quality.

October 8, 2014

A rational look at silver

As silver prices started to decline last year, silver mining companies halted projects where costs were too high in relation to the new reality of silver prices.

October 8, 2014

INFOGRAPHIC: The History of Metals

Gold seems to be the most ancient metal.

October 8, 2014

Glencore doesn’t give up on Rio Tinto, seeks to create largest mining company

It’s good to be Ivan Glasenberg’s neighbour.

October 8, 2014

Chile to loosen major miners’ grip on idle land

Chile’s government will seek talks with large-scale mining companies to make more land available for smaller mineral explorers as it seeks to expand the copper industry, the world’s largest.

October 7, 2014

Chile’s top court orders Goldcorp to halt El Morro mine

Once again the mining giant's $3.9 million project can't move forward until local indigenous groups who oppose it are better consulted.

October 7, 2014

Doug Casey: likely to be a super-bubble in these crappy little mining stocks

“As we speak, in the end of 2014, I think we're pretty close to the edge of the precipice”

October 7, 2014

Infographic: 15 greatest gold heists of all time

There have been multiple occurrences in history where evildoers have breached security measures and gold has fallen into the wrong hands.