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.

January 18, 2016

Colombian police begins evicting illegal miners from Continental Gold’s claims

The Canadian miner's Buriticá gold-silver-zinc project is located about 75 km from Medellín, the country’s second largest city.

January 18, 2016

One small step for mining’s new frontier

Once a figment of science fiction films, the sometimes risky notion of mining in space may soon become a reality if asteroid miners have their way.

January 15, 2016

This is what a mining, metals market meltdown looks like

Three of the world's top mining companies are now trading over 90% below their boom year highs as the 2016 commodity sell-off gathers pace.

January 13, 2016

South32 mulls acquisition of Anglo’s $1bn business in Brazil

Company is said to have sent out requests to investment banks as it seeks to hire an adviser to assist in the bidding process for Anglo American's niobium and phosphate…

January 10, 2016

Morgan, Sachs, Glencore have lawsuit against zinc price conspiracy dismissed

Two of the largest banks in the world and the biggest commodities trader have been found to be innocent of claims that they fixed zinc prices.

January 8, 2016

Worst year for US mining jobs since 1986

12 straight months of losses see 129,000 positions eliminated, the deepest jobs cuts in 29 years and the third worst annual decline since 1939.

January 8, 2016

Asteroid miner 3D-prints spacecraft prototype with alien metal

What Planetary Resources' 3D-printed model so impressive is the fact that it’s made entirely out of metal that’s not from Earth.