China’s largest jewellery retailer backs mined diamonds
Partnership between diamond miners and Chow Tai Fook aims to boost demand for mined rocks in China, particularly among young consumers.
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Codelco says its copper is 100% traceable amid sustainability drive
The announcement comes amid a broader push by the company to reduce water consumption, recycle industrial waste and scale back carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
Triple Flag shares flat after Canada’s biggest mining IPO in 9 years
Led by former Barrick Gold Corp executive Shaun Usmar, Triple Flag provides up-front financing to miners in exchange for a share of future revenue or production.
All roads lead to net-zero, not just the easy ones
Science gets in the way of net-zero in some areas but in many, many others, ways forward do exist.
Billionaire mining moguls fight fraud cops in £70m trial
Billionaire mining tycoons said the UK’s fraud prosecutor colluded with their own “bullying” lawyer to leak confidential information and manufacture grounds for a criminal probe that’s dragged on for almost a decade.
Visualizing the freefall in electric vehicle battery prices
With rising production and technological improvements, batteries are becoming cheaper to produce, making EVs increasingly competitive with gas-powered cars.
New digital exchange offers investors gold exposure and funding for miners
Mines in Australia and Ecuador have made available for sale around $93.50 million worth of gold at current prices, discounted to $80 million, on the Digital Metal Exchange (DMX).
South Africa’s NUM labour union demands 15% wage hike from gold companies
Soaring global gold prices over the past year have seen earning by gold firms surge, but the companies have argued that above-inflation increases are unrealistic.
SQM shuns fears of higher taxes in Chile, fast-tracks expansions
Expansions are expected to boost SQM's output to 180,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate and 30,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide by the end of 2022.