December 9, 2016 Centerra scraps dividends, gets Turkish project financing facility extended Shares fell after the miner said it would suspend dividends until further notice, due to current restrictions to funds held at its Kyrgyz Republic subsidiary, Kumtor Gold.
December 9, 2016 Fresh shake-up at Rio Tinto in aftermath of bribery probe Russian-Canadian Vera Kirikova will become human resources group executive while Simone Niven will assume the corporate relations group executive post.
December 8, 2016 Coking coal price savaged – biggest drop in 17 months Just as quarterly benchmark negotiations between miners and Japanese steel mills kick off, the coking coal price comes off the boil.
December 8, 2016 Trump could fuel a nuclear energy boom in 2017 For the vast untapped potential of the nuclear energy industry and the uranium that feeds it, this could contribute to a market-disrupting revival that no longer bows to fear and…
December 7, 2016 Global rough diamond production about to reach its peak Global rough diamond production will reach its peak in only three years before entering into a supply deficit by 2020, two separate reports show.
December 7, 2016 Rio Tinto says halt of copper shipments from Oyu Tolgoi ‘a bump in the road’ Chief executive Jean-Sebastian Jacques comments come as the company had to suspend shipments from the Mongolian mine last week.
December 6, 2016 Chinese-Korean group to build $2 billion lithium batteries plant in Chile Based on the conglomerate's estimates, opening such plant would increase value of the product 35 times, comparing to what it could be obtained by just selling it as lithium carbonate.
December 6, 2016 INTERVIEW: Jayant Bandar on India, chaos, and gold restrictions Jayant Bhandari, the host of highly acclaimed ‘Capitalism & Morality’ sits down with Maurice Jackson of ‘Proven & Probable to discuss the current events unfolding in India since Nov. 8,…
December 6, 2016 De Beers invests $5 million to expand India’s diamond grading unit Move takes the group’s total investment in the Indian city of Surat, which has the largest concentration of diamond skilled workers in the world, to $15 million.
December 5, 2016 Glencore becomes sole owner of Newlands, Collinsville coal mines in Australia After buying ought out its two Japanese partners, Itochu Corp and Sumitomo Corp.
Copper poised for best year since 2009 after December surge All six base metals on the LME are headed for annual gains in a year that’s seen an array of supply-side pressures. December 24, 2025 | 10:11 am
