Copper price falls as Chile brings 1.6mt back on line
Copper down nearly 2% as torrential downpour that shut many of the country's biggest mines is not expected to impact oversupplied market.
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Allana Potash sold to Israel Chemicals for $137 million
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PetroChina wants to smoothly sail away from the oil sand business
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Chinese miners keep digging for iron ore despite most losing money
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Scepticism grows over North Korea’s massive rare earth discovery
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Mine water experts gather in Vancouver
Running from April 12th to 15th.
Iron ore price output caps called ‘hare brained’
Rio's Sam Walsh says any scheme to artificially prop up prices hovering at six-year lows is "physically not going to work."
$60 billion for mining private equity a myth
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