Canadian junior plunges ahead with three cobalt projects in B.C.
Vancouver-based Cruz Cobalt is ready to kick off an airborne work program at its three B.C.-based properties amid high prices for the commodity
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Dollar weakness, which continued into early January after its biggest annual drop since 2003, had helped gold registred last week a fourth straight weekly gain for the first time since April.
Gem Diamonds, Lucapa kick off 2018 with massive findings
The rival companies have unearthed three diamonds larger than 100 carats each.
Zinc prices hit highest in over a decade on supply concerns
Zinc hit its highest in more than a decade on Friday as concerns over market tightness persisted, while copper hit a two-week low as Chinese investor interest was muted with the Lunar New Year holidays looming.
$900M Australian rare earths mine given state approval
The mine could supply up to 10% of world demand for neodymium and praseodymium, used in the manufacture of magnets for wind turbines, and electric vehicles.
Coal mine to re-open in Canada, another closes in US
Former Grand Cache Coal mine to re-start out of bankruptcy; 4 West Mine in Pennsylvania will be shuttered.
Coal dwarfs battery metals in mining deals despite war on pollution
Coal and iron ore dominated mining takeovers in 2017, Thomson Reuters data shows, with buyers favoring the heavily polluting devil they know over the uncertainties of a battery-powered future.
Huge silver deposit discovered in Inner Mongolia
Chinese media is reporting that a large deposit of silver has been found in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.
Peru’s environmental deregulation to spur more mining-related protests: analysts
The approval of the supreme decree 042-2017 in December might generate more unrest.