Silver and copper might help your clothes monitor you
Silver-coated copper nanowires could be used to embed fitness trackers and health monitors into shirts.
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Canadian junior joins ‘staking rush’ in Brazil
Altamira Gold is mimicking big players' strategies in the Juruena Belt.
The international lithium race
All that can be said with confidence is that, for the next few years, both supply and demand will grow strongly.
Gold miners sustaining costs up 22% since the gold price bottomed
Trend is likely to continue says new gold mining industry study.
South African court backs industry on black ownership
Uncertainty around the Mining Charter and ownership levels have deterred investment in a sector that accounts for 8% of the country's economic output.
BlackRock’s $1.3 billion gold fund feeling pain of miners
“A contributor to this performance in 2018 has been the underperformance of the royalty companies, which the fund has some exposure to."
Trafigura signs three-year cobalt deal with Congo miner
Trafigura has already increased its foothold in nickel with an exclusive offtake agreement with Finland's Terrafame, that also produces zinc and cobalt.
Teck ups stake in Chile Quebrada Blanca copper mine in $162.5m deal
Company now owns 90% of Compañía Minera Teck Quebrada Blanca, which main asset is the namesake copper project in Northern Chile.
Miners, commodities hit as US-China trade war heats up
Mining companies saw its shares plummet along with metal prices on Wednesday as China announced additional tariffs on US products, a move experts say is likely to heighten global concerns of a tit-for-tat trade war between the world's biggest economies.
