April 6, 2017

Erdene Resource moving forward with flagship project in Mongolia

While the company had other projects in the country, the Bayan Khundii gold project went from greenfield prospect to being its main asset in roughly nine months.

April 6, 2017

‘Conflict minerals’ entering tech supply chains from countries beyond Africa — report

Tungsten, tin, tantalum and gold are now also being illegally extracted and traded at sites under the control of armed groups in countries including Myanmar and Colombia.

April 5, 2017

Gold finds strong support from negative real rates

In case you haven’t already noticed, inflation has been steadily creeping up since July. In February, the most recent month of available data, consumer prices advanced at their fastest pace…

April 5, 2017

Hybrid Enterprises and Helium One announce strategic partnership at Mines and Money Asia

Hybrid Enterprises, the exclusive worldwide reseller of Lockheed Martin’s Hybrid Airship, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Helium One, an explorer, developer and producer of high value bulk…

April 5, 2017

Joy Global becomes Komatsu Mining

The Japanese firm has completed its $3.7bn takeover of the Milwaukee-based equipment maker.

April 5, 2017

Cyclone damage causes BHP to declare force majeure in Australia

The miner said it won't meet its coal export commitments due to the damage caused by cyclone Debbie, which struck Australia’s north-east coast last week.

April 4, 2017

INTERACTIVE MAP: World’s top 10 gold deposits

Together these giant orebodies contain reserves worth $796 billion at today's gold price.

April 3, 2017

Search for ship containing 260,000 tonnes of iron ore continues

The Stellar Daisy, which set out from the a port in Brazil to China, last made contact on Friday. 22 out of the 24 crew members are still unaccounted for.

April 3, 2017

Cyclone Debbie disrupts $3.2bn of Australian coal exports

Damage to rail lines in cyclone-hit Queensland have disrupted the shipment of between 15 million and 20 million tonnes of coking coal destined to Asia.

April 2, 2017

Ports in China have enough iron ore to build 13,000 Eiffel Towers

With enough iron ore to construct Paris's Eiffel Tower nearly 13,000 times over, China's ports are bursting with stockpiles of the raw material and some of them are demolishing old…