March 3, 2012 Indians’ love affair with platinum was brief The Business Standard reports now that platinum trades more in line with the gold price, Indian jewellery buyers are moving back into gold.
March 1, 2012 Oyu Tolgoi sucks up cash and Ivanhoe must sell off assets. Investors chase stock up 5% betting on rich buyers After steady gains throughout the day Ivanhoe Mines – building one of the richest copper and gold mines in the world – ended Thursday up 5.47% after CEO and founder…
March 1, 2012 Potashcorp says 2012 should see record potash demand. India slashes subsidies 20% Potashcorp, the world's number one producer of the soil nutrient, also expects balanced or tight supply for the next four years.
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.
Copper price racks up longest rally since 2017 with bulls at the helm Futures have rallied by more than 40% this year, setting up the biggest annual advance since 2009. December 30, 2025 | 09:12 am
