September precious metal price meltdown Fresh selling sees gold price end September down 6% vs historical average gain of 3%, silver tanks 13%, platinum drops 9% and palladium collapses 15% over the course of the month. Frik Els | September 30, 2014 | 9:41 pm
Kal Kotecha: going against the grain in five names Economics professor and newsletter writer Kal Kotecha says to obtain superior results, you cannot do what everyone else is doing. The Gold Report | September 30, 2014 | 8:24 pm
Canada’s Nova Scotia introduces ruling to ban fracking The proposed law, however, would allow fracking for testing and research purposes. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2014 | 5:42 pm
Avalanche kills Centerra Gold’s Kumtor mine worker Another person in serious conditions. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2014 | 5:00 pm
IIa Technologies Makes Breakthrough Discovery for Single Crystal Diamond Plates Attested by major research institutes, IIa’s diamond plates are ideal for sophisticated medical and technological applications IIa Technologies | September 30, 2014 | 4:21 pm
Rio Tinto, Glencore could save $500m by joining coal businesses It would also create a a 15-kilometre long ‘‘super pit’’ from the union of Rio’s Mount Thorley Warkworth and Glencore’s Bulga open-pit mines. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2014 | 3:15 pm
UK authorities to review bid for $2.7bn potash project in national park Analysts say this is “make or break” time for the company behind the massive mine, Sirius Minerals. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2014 | 2:13 pm
Newmont ships first copper from Indonesia in eight months 30,000 tonnes of copper concentrate were sent out Monday. Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2014 | 1:16 pm
Canada’s oil sands image set for overhaul with new Premier Canada’s reputation as climate bad-boy was invented in Manhattan in 2008. Bloomberg News | September 30, 2014 | 12:10 pm