Tesla battery plant will need 6 new flake graphite mines
$5bn ‘gigafactory’ to spark EV uptake; battery graphite demand could double in 6 years with no growth elsewhere.
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Some farmers accuse railways of loading more oil while allowing their crops to pile up.
Liebherr’s T 284 Featured in Rise of the Machines
Heavy engineering meets action packed documentary in the History Channel’s Rise of the Machines. Using cutting edge photo-realistic Computer Generated Illustration (CGI), this show examines the engineering behind today’s “most advanced super machines,”...
Why gold looks better than the S&P: Marc Faber, PhD
Marc Faber, author of the Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report, and a Director of Sprott Inc. shared his most recent views during a recent visit to our offices… In particular, he’s seeing cracks in the broad stock market become apparent:
Iron ore price suffers worst one-day drop since August
Deteriorating outlook for China's steel industry and economy as a whole pushed iron ore price down 2.3% towards 9-month low on Friday.
VIDEO: This is how US mining firms say to be fuelling innovation
For an industry that has traditionally been conservative in its approach to new technologies, US miners seem to be leading adoption and generation of innovations.
Swiss National Bank lost over $10bn in 2013 on weak gold prices
Its bullion reserves are now worth about $17 billion less.
Gold knocked down by surge in US jobs
It fell around 1.3% to $1,336.01 after a report on US employment showed the country added more jobs than expected in February.
Anglo quits coal terminal expansion in Australia
The withdrawal leaves India's GVK Group and Adani as the only two groups considering port expansions in the region.
