Iron ore price drops below $60
Down 9% since Monday as Chinese speculators pull out and Rio Tinto CEO warns of oversupply.
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London starts to see the shine in China’s gold plans
There appeared to be a changing tide of acceptance rather than concern over the past fortnight, that Shanghai is becoming a bigger, and more influential, cog in the global gold machine.
The state of the global diamond industry going into summer 2016
Current industry data and commentary paints a mixed picture as to whether market fundamentals are stable enough to support growth.
Silver demand hit record high in 2015
So did production – all time high of 887m ounces.
World’s second-largest diamond ever found could fetch over $70M
The rock, known as “Lesedi La Rona”, was unearthed in November in Botswana at a mine owned by Canada's Lucara Diamond.
Sibanye Gold wants more platinum assets, but also eying base metals, coal, uranium
Despite the collapse in platinum prices last year, chief executive Neal Froneman is confident that the sector has turned a corner.
Precious metals every bit as explosive as Secretariat at the Belmont Stakes
The charts tell the story, says precious metals expert Michael Ballanger, adding that the mining and metals market have the forward momentum of Secretariat as he clinched the Triple Crown
BHP, Vale disaster turned into mining’s Deepwater Horizon
Shares in mining giants tumble after civil suit in Brazil claims $43 billion in damages based on clean-up costs associated with BP's oil spill in the Gulf.
Mapped: The global coal trade
The global coal trade doubled in the decade to 2012 as a boom took hold in Asia. Now, the coal trade seems to have stalled or even gone into reverse.
