June 21, 2013 Asteroid miner exceeds $1 million crowd-funding goal Planetary Resources is now going for $2 million and has created new incentives to lure backers.
June 11, 2013 Asteroid mining firm hires former White House officer Peter Marquez, former director of space policy under US Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is Planetary Resources’s new vice president for global engagement.
June 4, 2013 Glencore Xstrata McArthur River mine expansion plan approved It will make the McArthur River Mine the largest zinc resource in the world.
June 2, 2013 Report: China starts stockpiling metals again The Chinese State Reserves Bureau has returned to the nickel market in a big way. Copper may be next.
May 30, 2013 British Columbia First Nations turn up heat on Imperial Metals Protests took place outside Imperial Metals' May 29 AGM.
May 29, 2013 Planetary Resources wants to raise $1m with its first asteroid prospectors Promises 'a telescope for everyone.'
May 24, 2013 Vedanta raises $1.7bn, India’s largest ever offshore bond sale This is a landmark transaction for Vedanta, which is joining domestic peers in catching the flood of US dollars being unleashed by central banks.
May 21, 2013 Commodity supercycle is essentially over: Citigroup Group expects 2013 to be year in which “the death bells ring for the commodity supercycle after its duly noted sunset.”
SolGold agrees to $1.2 billion takeover by top investor Jiangxi Copper This was Jiangxi's third proposal to acquire the company. December 24, 2025 | 08:03 am
