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Royal Nickel’s move into gold gathers pace
Now called RNC Minerals, the Toronto-based miner raises $9.2m to ramp up Australian gold mine acquired in May as Eric Sprott takes 10% stake.
Gold price: Hedge funds, ETF investors show buying fatigue
Gold's lacklustre trading since the start of summer sees $1.7 billion pulled out of top gold ETF as hedge funds slash bullish bets to lowest since May.
Nord Gold to join 1 million ounce club
After a difficult first half, Nord Gold's now set up for over 1.2moz per year after start-up at Bouly mine in West Africa and major Russian development.
Chinese coal companies to boost thermal coal output to placate steel mills
Cranking up production is actually the opposite of what Beijing wants to do for Chinese coal.
Large lead, zinc deposit found in Xinjiang
A large lead and zinc deposit, allegedly China's largest, has been discovered in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities announced on Sunday.
Poland copper mine cave-in claims two lives
The accident happened at the Polkowice-Sieroszowice mine when part of a ceiling collapsed.
$60 trillion of world debt in one visualization
The United States constitutes 23.3% of the world economy but 29.1% of world debt.
Oil sands surplus jamming up pipelines to U.S., pushing more crude into rail cars
Canada is sending a record amount of oil to the United States, filling pipelines to capacity and threatening to push more crude into rail cars.