Rio Tinto-Glencore a ‘poor match’: Sam Walsh
Walsh emphasized Rio was not planning any major acquisition to protect itself from a potential takeover by the commodity trader and miner rival.
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Doug Loud and Jeff Mosseri say gold will regain its shine in 2015
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Metso wins Aprimin’s Annual Safety Award 2014 for the second year running
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Precious metals firm is Britain’s most admired company
200-year old Johnson Matthey refines precious metals, manufactures autocatalysts and produces the platinum group metals industry's most watched research.
CHART: Gold now looks very expensive vs oil
An ounce of gold now buys you the same number of barrels of crude it did in December 2012, when the price was around $1,700 an ounce.
Canadian premiers say Energy East pipeline a ‘nation-building’ exercise
Ontario and Alberta agree the controversial $12bn Energy East pipeline is a “nation-building” exercise and said they'd work together on the issue.
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