Copper price plunges to 1-year low
Metal market mayhem with $13 billion worth of copper futures offloaded by lunchtime.
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Rio Tinto’s minerals sands operation in South Africa shut by protests
A mineral sands operation on the South African coast run by Rio Tinto has been closed since Friday due to violent community protests which saw a security guard killed earlier this week, the company and a union said on Wednesday.
Serbian miner RTB Bor attracts 11 possible buyers
Serbia has tried and failed three times since 2007 to sell the debt-laden mining complex, which suffered a long period of neglect during the Balkan Wars and the country's international isolation in the 1990s.
Experts come up with plan for protecting deep-sea life from mining
An international group of researches have recommended 18 quantitative metrics that regulators can use to assess seabed mining projects.
Five top mining execs. convicted over Turkey’s worst mine disaster
The sentences range from 15 to 22 years in jail for high-ranked executives.
Wage talks begin in South Africa’s shrinking gold industry
Negotiations start against the backdrop of stark declines in the industry that was once the world’s largest.
Resolute extends life of Queensland gold mine by three years
Ravenswood mine is now expected to end operations in 2031, with an average production of about 115,000 ounces of gold per year.
Trump started the metals rally, now he’s the reason it’s ending
The U.S. election of Donald Trump lit a fire under metals markets in 2016 as investors took a liking to his pro-business agenda. Now, copper and other metals are tanking as Trump’s trade war against China threatens to derail economic growth.
Huge diamonds keep coming out of Lucapa’s Lulo mine in Angola
This time is a 114-carat white stone.
