Zinc price hits fresh decade high
“From the macro point of view, this is not an environment where you’d want to be shorting metals.”
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Planetary Resources a step closer to mining asteroids with spacecraft launch
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Alrosa buys stake in Angola’s largest diamond deposit for $70 million
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Indonesia sets framework for Freeport to yield control of Grasberg mine
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