Rio Tinto completes sale of Australian coal asset
As soon as the sale was completed, Rio received $150 million in cash and is set to get an unconditional cash payment of $50 million due in 12 months.
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Cobalt price: Congo production surges
Top supplier of battery raw material ups output 34% year on year.
Metal prices, financing, exploration and assays are all up
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The real barrier to Trump’s coal bailout? His own appointees
The members of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have already thwarted one effort to bail out uneconomic power plants.
Paulson nears launch of investor alliance to shake up gold sector -sources
The Shareholders Gold Council (SGC), expected to be launched as early as June, will have more than a dozen investors.
Canada’s Teck adopts new resource extraction technology
Teck displayed some of its high-tech approaches to mining at the recent B.C. Tech Summit.
Zimbabwe removes requirement for foreign mines to list locally
Mines Minister Winston Chitando had last month promised to remove the requirements, which he said caused panic among foreign mining firms.
Nickel price is soaring
Up 75% in a year battery producers stock up on high grade exchange-held metal in anticipation of electric vehicle boom.
Southern has copper giants in crosshairs with Peru expansion
Southern Copper Corp. is preparing to scale the ranking of global producers by spending more than $10 billion in Peru and Mexico.