Alrosa seeks to brighten up its fluorescent diamond sales

Diamond miners are seeking new approaches to battle falling demand and competition from diamonds manufactured in laboratories.

Reuters | September 9, 2019 | 10:44 am

Pure Gold starts construction of Madsen mine

The Madsen Red Lake mine is said to be the highest grade development-stage gold project.

Jackson Chen | September 9, 2019 | 10:28 am

Platinum giants say union declares dispute in wage talks

The producers have rebuffed AMCU’s initial demands for a 48% wage increase, which some say would lead to job losses and mine closures.

Bloomberg News | September 9, 2019 | 10:14 am

Russia’s gold stash now worth more than $100 billion

Russia’s long-running bet on gold is looking better every month.

Bloomberg News | September 9, 2019 | 10:03 am

First Cobalt favors quick restart of Canadian refinery

Glencore agreed last month to fund a feasibility study to restart and potentially expand the refinery.

Reuters | September 9, 2019 | 9:07 am

Copper finely poised between negative macro and robust micro — opinion

Copper last week hit a year-to-date low of $5,518/tonne in the London market as the macroeconomic picture becomes ever gloomier.

Reuters | September 9, 2019 | 8:54 am

Benz evaluating exploration program for Eastmain Mine in Quebec

The Eastmain Mine gold project is owned by Eastmain Resources but Benz entered into an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the former producing operation.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | September 9, 2019 | 6:20 am

Orano to start drilling at Close Lake uranium project in Saskatchewan

The campaign is set to be of approximately 3,000 metres in up to four holes at an estimated cost of $1.1 million.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | September 9, 2019 | 6:15 am

China’s copper imports, aluminium exports fall in August as slowdown bites

China's unwrought copper imports fell in August after a bounce in the previous month.

Reuters | September 8, 2019 | 6:54 am

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