US coal giant is ‘unglued’ as $800m takeover sours
Contura Energy's stock plunged by the most ever and was trading at a record low Friday.
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Gold miners’ Q3 2019 fundamentals
The major gold miners just enjoyed a phenomenal quarter for gold, which soared after its first bull-market breakout in years.
Nevada Copper on track to start production before end 2019
Wholly-owned Pumpkin Hollow would be the first new copper mine in decades to be built in the US.
Serbia buys nine tonnes of gold to heed president’s crisis advice
The biggest former Yugoslav republic is following Hungary and Poland, where officials boosted gold reserves in 2018 to create a bulwark against crisis.
Rio Tinto to pay $221m to fund Ranger uranium mine closure
Energy Resources of Australia has been looking to raise money to fund the closure and rehabilitation of the Ranger project.
Argentina’s lithium producers hopeful as Fernandez set to take power
The last Peronist president, Cristina Kirchner, imposed strict standards for several industries, including lithium.
Corruption, child labor risk in Congo’s cobalt industry, OECD warns
Child labor and human-rights abuses are common in small-scale mining sites in Congo.
South Africa’s platinum mining firms, top union end ‘titanic battle’ as they seal wage deal
The deal comes as a relief to the sector, where officials were fearful of a repeat of a five-month platinum strike in 2014-2015 which crippled production and hurt the economy.
Eramet CEO says plans FID on Argentina lithium project in Q1 2020
Eramet earlier predicted the FID would be made at the earliest in the fourth quarter of this year, but the decision has been slightly delayed due to the change in Argentina's government.
