Copper price rally slows ahead of Chinese holiday
Traders and leading investors say the market needs more good news before prices can rip higher.
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Crypto’s rapid rise means investors need gold, top miner says
The rise of cryptocurrencies, including red-hot Bitcoin, just handed one of the world’s leading gold miners one more reason to urge investors to buy the age-old haven that is bullion.
China’s 2020 refined nickel imports slump to 6-year low
Chinese imports of refined nickel fell by 32% year-on-year to 130,700 tonnes in 2020.
New Gold mulls Rainy River underground expansion
Company expects to increase production at the mine by 22% this year to between 270,000 and 290,000 ounces of gold.
Ivanhoe to launch $16m exploration program at Western Foreland in DRC
The licenses are in close proximity to the Kamoa-Kakula copper project.
ALX Resources requests permit to drill at Gibbons Creek uranium project
The miner says the project shows potential for unconformity-style or deeper, basement-hosted uranium mineralization.
Sprott invests in junior Goliath Resources
Investment firm has injected C$2 million into the junior, giving it a 8.5% stake in the company.
JP Morgan: Commodities have begun new supercycle of “years-long gains”
Commodities have seen four supercycles over the past 100 years — with the last one peaking in 2008 after 12 years of expansion.
Odds ‘n’ Sods Part II: Sinking shafts in South Africa–hot, dangerous, and exhilarating
Eventually, assuming you have no wish to be an academic geologist or a waiter, reality bites and some sort of salaried earth science career is needed to fund the pub breaks.
