Climate has a strong impact on copper resources, according to a new research by the University of Idaho and the University of Michigan.

GOLD STOCKS NEWS – Gold stocks tumbled Tuesday as the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) fell $1.73, or 2.9%, to $57.10 per share in morning trading.  Weakness in gold stocks and the GDX was driven by a sell-off in COMEX gold futures, which declin...

The broader commodities complex is set to rebound following several months of weakness, according to a new report from Barclays Capital.

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Swiss structured products exchange Scoach has become the world's first exchange to allow trading in gold-denominated structured products and might also allow exchange traded funds (ETFs) with gold as the trading currency.

Gold, silver, platinum and palladium, as well as other commodities, generally stand a better chance of handling a global economic downturn than other types of investments, Barclays Capital said Monday.

International Business Times reports that a mob of horsemen armed with sticks and petrol bombs attacked an exploration camp run by South African miner Gold Fields' joint venture in Kyrgyzstan, the latest in a series of assaults on mining companies in the Central Asian state. Talas Copper Gold, a joint venture between Gold Fields and Britain's Orsu Metals, said on Monday that its security manager was severely beaten as he fled from a burning building at the exploration camp in Talas province. Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic of 5.5 million people, is preparing to elect its next president to replace Almazbek Atambayev (pictured on left) on Oct. 30, following a year in which its former leader was overthrown and hundreds were killed in mob violence.

Gold steadied on Friday, set for its biggest weekly gain in a month after fresh European efforts to resolve the region's debt crisis gave investors more confidence to move out of the relative safety of cash ahead of key U.S. jobs data.

In what seemed to be a major breakthrough for debt-ridden Greece, it had gained trust from a Qatar-based holdings firm to invest in one of its gold-mining projects. On Saturday, Qatar Holdings LLC signed a $1 billion investment into European Goldfields

Fast-developing and emerging market leaders China and India will push the global demand for raw steel-making ingredients by as much as 68 percent between 2010 and 2025, according to mining giant BHP Billiton on Friday.

Global miner Rio Tinto is fighting a legacy of bad publicity as it tries to persuade the Mongolian public a $10 billion copper deposit it took over from Ivanhoe Mines last year is in safe hands.