Gold Fields offers $10k for new algorithm to classify gold ore
The goal is to develop an image algorithm that can classify material in a gold mine as high, medium or low grade ore, or waste.
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Anglo American ok to extend debated coal mine in Australia
New South Wales planning authorities say a scaled-back plan to extend the life of Anglo’s Drayton South open-cut mine in the Hunter Valley can be approved, but with certain conditions.
BHP Billiton posts worst profit in over 10 years
As prices for the company's four key "pillar" commodities —iron ore, metallurgical coal, copper and oil and gas — have all dropped to multi-year lows in the past 12 months.
EU probing ‘anticompetitive behavior in precious metals spot trading’
The European Union’s competition watchdog is investigating alleged “anticompetitive behavior in precious metals spot trading,” a spokesman said.
CHART: Stop panicking about China and mining
We're not in 2008 – plotting global economic growth against commodity prices shows metals and mining sell-off is disconnected from realities on the ground.
Canadian mining stocks outperform metals prices
Canadian junior and mid-tier mining companies also raised 62% more capital in the second quarter than in 2014.
Be not afraid of greatness – Wits unveils Danie Krige display cabinet of memorabilia
This week, the Wits School of Mining Engineering hosted the official unveiling of the Danie Krige Display Cabinet in one of its state-of-the- art lecture rooms in the Chamber of Mines Building on the Wits campus.
Criminal investigation of a Finnish conservation group requested by Vancouver-based Mawson Resources
The Vancouver-based miner claims the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation’s (FANC) Lapland chapter is willfully misleading the courts in its appeal of an exploration permit decision — a criminal act under Finnish law.
Anglo American sells copper mines in Chile to UK investment firm
The price for the two assets could rise to $500m from $200m, depending on an eventual recovery of copper prices and the execution of an expansion plan for the Mantoverde mine.