February 25, 2016 South32 looking for assets despite $1.75bn loss, massive layoffs Despite the loss and a 94% drop in earnings, analysts believe the company's modest debt of $116 million makes it well-positioned to act on opportunities.
February 18, 2016 South32 in talks with Anglo American to buy manganese unit The spin-out from BHP Billiton says it is willing to take on the manganese ore venture if the price is right.
February 11, 2016 Teck Resources logs $536M loss in Q4 on depressed commodities, asset charge The loss includes a Cdn$598 million impairment charge on its Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta.
February 10, 2016 EPA says Colorado mine spill dumped 880,000 pounds of metals into river The report didn’t identify the metals but said researchers were looking at cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel and zinc.
February 3, 2016 Luxembourg joins race to conquer space mining The move comes only three months after U.S. President Barack Obama signed a space exploitation law.
January 31, 2016 Explorer Aston Bay signs $40-million preliminary deal with BHP on copper asset Tiny Aston Bay Holdings (BAY-V), a junior with a copper-zinc project in Nunavut, seized the market’s attention by announcing a preliminary joint-venture deal with the world’s largest mining company.
January 21, 2016 INFOGRAPHIC: The periodic table of commodity returns This year’s version has an interactive design that allows users to sort returns by various categories including returns, volatility, and other groupings.
January 20, 2016 Oil, Asian stocks rout deepen miners wounds Miners suffering fresh sell-off as oil price falls and the IMF lowers growth forecast for China, rattling investors.
January 18, 2016 MMG’s gigantic Las Bambas mine in Peru makes first copper shipment to China The company shipped roughly 10,000 tonnes of copper concentrate from Las Bambas from the Port of Matarani to China on Jan. 15.
Iron ore price nears best close since November on year-end metal rally The steelmaking ingredient advanced for a third straight session in Singapore, climbing nearly 1.8% to as much as $106.55 a ton in intraday trading. December 29, 2025 | 07:51 am
