Gold prices rebound on US unemployment data Spot gold rallied back above $1,700 an ounce, up 2.2%. Jackson Chen | May 7, 2020 | 10:01 am
China is virtually alone in backing Africa’s coal projects Chinese companies and banks are involved in financing at least 13 coal projects across the continent with another nine in the pipeline. Bloomberg News | May 7, 2020 | 9:52 am
Oil bust forces college grads to rethink career path The energy business used to add jobs at about 10 times the US national pace, now it’s even worse than the economy in general. Bloomberg News | May 7, 2020 | 9:13 am
Indian lithium plant plan advances as EV market boom looms India’s first lithium refinery will have a proposed capacity of 20,000 tonnes a year of lithium hydroxide. Bloomberg News | May 7, 2020 | 8:58 am
Poland to test 1,000 miners a day as virus grips coal region Silesia mining region in southern Poland showed the highest number of infections. Reuters | May 7, 2020 | 8:48 am
Rio Tinto dodges emissions cut, but issue unlikely to go away About 63% of shareholders voted against resolution to set emissions targets for its customers, while 37% voted in favour. Reuters | May 7, 2020 | 8:41 am
Peru mines to hit 80% production in a month Executive director of the National Society of Mining says around 20 companies are ready to resume operations. Reuters | May 7, 2020 | 8:23 am
Albemarle eyes Tianqi’s stake in world’s largest lithium mine The world's top lithium miner said it was interested in buying all or part of Tianqi's stake in Greenbushes mine. Cecilia Jamasmie | May 7, 2020 | 6:58 am
Energy Fuels to acquire Prompt Fission Neutron technology The Colorado-based company will become sole owner of the PFN technology, critical to uranium production. MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 7, 2020 | 6:20 am