April 12, 2018 Last hurrah for the zinc price The price of zinc fell to a four month low on Thursday – there's much more pain to come says new report.
April 12, 2018 Poor left out of mining profits as ‘resource curse’ hits Kenya There were cases of displacement of communities, workers subjected to unsafe conditions, as well as soil, water and air pollution.
April 12, 2018 Glencore is losing billionaire allies to Trump’s sanctions In just four months, Glencore Plc chief Ivan Glasenberg has lost two of his closest business allies, billionaires Oleg Deripaska and Dan Gertler.
April 12, 2018 Harmony Gold says $519,000 of metal stolen from S. African mine Thieves broke into Harmony Gold Mining Co.’s Kalgold mine Tuesday morning and stole 12 kilograms (386 ounces) of the precious metal.
April 12, 2018 De Beers is said to lift diamond prices for second straight sale The company raised prices a similar amount in its previous sale at the end of February.
April 12, 2018 Burkina Faso to end tycoon Frank Timis’s manganese mining contract Timis's Pan African Burkina Limited (PAB) acquired the rights to the Tambao mine, which it says holds 100 million tonnes of manganese reserves, in June 2012.
April 12, 2018 Lucara recovers 472 carat diamond, third largest ever for Karowe Recovered from the Karowe Diamond Mine located in Botswana.
April 11, 2018 Botswana’s Tati Nickel Mine out of liquidation after court ruling When it was placed under liquidation, Tati had incurred a cumulative loss of 1.6 billion pula ($165 million) and owed creditors one billion pula.
April 11, 2018 Vedanta Resources expects supply constraints to sustain zinc prices Vedanta could accelerate expansion of its African zinc operations to take advantage of strong prices.
April 11, 2018 Mining industry must improve human rights, environment protection — index The Responsible Mining Index, launched in Geneva on Wednesday, assesses the policies and practices of 30 large companies that produce 25 percent of mined commodities, from gold to copper and…
How a reclusive ex-Glencore trader became Indonesia’s nickel king Arif Kurniawan has gone from earning paychecks at Glencore to controlling approximately a third of his country’s domestic trade in nickel ore. December 28, 2025 | 03:25 pm
