March 15, 2013 160-year study of real commodity prices sees beginning of the end of the supercycle For those with a very long time horizon, the news is good though.
March 15, 2013 Ten banks to back up Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi: report The mine is currently operating under a temporary month-to-month budget from Rio's coffers
March 14, 2013 Oyu Tolgoi: Mongolia tosses ball into Rio’s court Mongolia wants six issues resolved before agreeing on construction funding.
March 14, 2013 What’s Asia’s bellwether economy saying? Just when the western world was worried about a serious double-dip recession, the unthinkable happened: Asia faltered.
March 14, 2013 Is the price of gold manipulated Libor-style? The Commodity Futures Commission is determining whether or not the big banks are manipulating gold prices daily.
March 14, 2013 Japanese miner building rare earth recovery plant in the Phillipines The scandium recovery facility will be built later this year with operations slated to begin in 2014.
March 13, 2013 Canadian Arctic irreversible melt not just bad news The decreasing Arctic ice sheet could mean billions for the mining industry, say experts.
March 12, 2013 The ‘revolution’ in the next decade of mining Deloitte CEO Glen Ives believes the mining industry will 'revolutionize' the way it approaches projects in the coming decade.
March 10, 2013 Honda’s starts recycling program to extract 80% of rare earths from used hybrid batteries 386 hybrid vehicles damaged in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami prompted the Japanese carmaker to design a new extraction process.
March 10, 2013 Mongolia working hard to avoid the mistakes of 2009 with new mining law The Law with the Long Name enacted in 2009 abruptly cancelled 200 mining and exploration licences.
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