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.
December 5, 2016 New Islamic banking rules make gold an accepted investment Transactions must be fully backed by physical metal and settled on the same day to observe Islam's distinction between real economic activity and speculation.
December 5, 2016 World’s longest traffic jam points to Mongolia recovery Over 60 kilometers, they line up: truck after truck, after truck. Nearly every one of them is laden with coal.
December 4, 2016 Explosion in Chinese coal mine leaves 32 dead Thirty-two miners were killed in a gas explosion that ripped through a coal mine in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia on Saturday.
December 1, 2016 Gemfields postpones emerald auction over India’s ‘demonetization’ The auction of emeralds from the miner's Kagem operation in Zambia will now be in February.
December 1, 2016 Glencore to resume dividend in 2017 as debt reduction on track Soaring coal prices have helped Glencore, the world’s biggest provider of the thermal kind, straighten its balance sheet.
December 1, 2016 Taliban offer ‘security’ for copper, gas projects Armed group behind much of the violence over the past 15 years has offered to protect major Afghan government projects.
Iron ore logs annual gain in a dramatic recovery fuelled by steel exports Prices of the key steelmaking ingredient had come under pressure earlier this year on expectations of a supply glut and forecasts of faltering demand in China. December 31, 2025 | 09:27 am
