February 29, 2012 A fall in the gold price could boost India’s financial system: Reserve Bank Rather than drastically change or destabilise the Indian financial market, a correction in the price of gold could actually mitigate financial stress, a paper by India's central bank has noted.
February 27, 2012 Indian gold ETF investment doubled last year – and set to surge this As investors in India look to bolster their investment portfolio and look for options outside the stock market, demand for ETFs that invest in gold doubled in 2011 and is…
February 26, 2012 Mining causing water crisis in Meghalaya The mineral-rich Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya faces an acute drinking water crisis as major rivers there have been declared “unfit” for human use due to high level of acidity…
February 26, 2012 Violence halts Papua mine production Freeport-McMoRan has suspended operations at it gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia's Papua province due to fighting among its employees.
February 25, 2012 Vedanta consolidation to create world’s 7th largest natural resources company London-based Vedanta Group (LON:VED) announced Saturday a merger of two of its subsidiaries, Sesa Goa and Sterlite Industries, into a new corporate entity to be named Sesa Sterlite.
February 24, 2012 Investors asked to wait once again before they can get their hands on world’s largest met coal deposit The privatization process will see Mongolia's government holding a majority 51% stake after selling 19% to investors and distributing the remainder to its 2.7 million citizens, but the $3 billion…
February 23, 2012 China’s copper usage jumped 38% in October-November During the first eleven months of 2011, global usage grew by only 2.7% over 2010, but accelerated in October-November to 12% due to an jump of 38% in China.
February 23, 2012 Nuclear energy to grow fourteen fold in India India's Power Minister says that nuclear power will add 63,000 MW of capacity, a fourteen fold increase, to his country over the next 20 years.
February 20, 2012 Did China’s central bank buy 139 tonnes of gold in the fourth quarter? After surging in January, prices for gold and silver have been remarkably steady through the first three weeks of February, setting the stage for a possible big move sometime in…
February 19, 2012 Gold Fields seen to exercise option in Phl mining project Gold Fields Ltd expects to exercise its option to take 60 percent of the Far Southeast gold-copper deposit in the Philippines in the second half when Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co.…
Super Copper’s Cordillera project approved by Chile’s National Mining Authority The concessions cover approximately 6,858 hectares in the Atacama copper belt. December 24, 2025 | 11:24 am
