March 13, 2015 Semafo bounces on full-year results Fresh from $137m Burkina Faso acquisition, Montreal-based gold miner adds to investor cheer with strong operational performance in West Africa.
March 12, 2015 The stunning collapse of gold production in South Africa A much reduced role on the global gold mining stage.
March 12, 2015 Blood gold flows illegally from Central African Republic Freddy Bonjour, covered in yellow dust from head to toe, stands exhausted after a day using his bare hands and a shovel to dig for gold in eastern Central African…
March 11, 2015 Dire Chinese steel outlook drops iron ore price to 7-year low Down 1.4% Wednesday to lowest since 2007 on Chinese forecast of peak steel production and contraction.
March 11, 2015 Everyone is guessing when it comes to oil prices Predicting and diagnosing the trajectory of oil prices has become something of a cottage industry in the past year.
March 10, 2015 When junior markets turn most negative in 35 years, guess where financier Carlo Civelli puts his money? In this interview with The Mining Report, he shares his secret for finding companies that can create value despite challenging market conditions, and he reveals where he is putting his…
March 10, 2015 Copper market vulnerable to DRC politics: CIBC The Democratic Republic of Congo, a big, lush, mineral-rich country in the heart of Sub Saharan Africa, currently produces roughly 6% of the world’s copper.
March 9, 2015 Hitting the high notes of African Resource M&A: Nana Sangmuah In this interview with The Gold Report, Sangmuah tells investors how to avoid the party crashers and seek names that can hit the high notes with long-life production assets that…
March 8, 2015 Eskom to buy $3.7B rand annually worth of exportable coal South Africa's Eskom has coal market observers scratching their heads after the public utility announced plans to purchase expensive, export-quality coal from Glencore's (LON:GLEN) Optimum Coal.
March 6, 2015 Iron ore spot price drops to record low The iron ore price suffered another steep decline on Friday, falling to the lowest since November 2008 when the SteelIndex benchmark was first introduced.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am