Bears wrong-footed by jobs report light fire under gold price
Gold price surges 2.6% in heavy trading as hedge funds with record-breaking bearish bets scramble to cover shorts.
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Anglo American set to announce dividend cut next week
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New presentation video of Professional LLC, Russia
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Down again: iron ore sinks below $40 a tonne
It hit $39.40 a tonne, the lowest price ever recorded by price assessor The Steel Index (TSI), which began compiling data in 2008.
China’s steel giants lost $11 billion in first 10 months of 2015
That is more than double the profits reaped in 2014.
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Supercycle meets Kubler-Ross.
Rio’s secret weapon for a sub-$40 iron ore price
The price of iron fell again on Thursday stopping barely above $40 a tonne, but Rio's new high-grade Pilbara mine will ensure its costs keep falling.
Giant mine pit ‘swallowing’ 400-year-old Peruvian town
The Peruvian city of Cerro de Pasco, perched high up in the Andes, is about to sink — literally and metaphorically — into the deeps of a half-century-old, open-pit zinc and lead mine.
Gold majors trading at just 4% of in-situ metal value
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