November 14, 2016 Canada’s Kirkland Lake soars after Gold Fields confirms $1.4bn rejected offer Offer came on the heels of Kirkland Lake's move to buy fellow bullion miner Newmarket Gold (TSX:NMI) in an all-stock deal worth about Cdn$1 billion ($764 million).
November 9, 2016 Rio Tinto energy and minerals chief suspended over Simandou bribery claims Alan Davies suspended after miner found payments made to consultant in 2011, when he was in charge of the iron ore project.
November 8, 2016 Major Aussie miners BHP, Hancock to mine in Ecuador — report Ecuador began last month granting licences for new exploration areas, with over 300 of them to be awarded by the year-end.
November 7, 2016 FLSmidth to supply key pyroprocessing equipment to Chinese lithium plant in Australia FLSmidth has signed a contract for the supply of pyroprocessing and comminution equipment for Tianqi Lithium Australia's lithium hydroxide processing plant, which will be located in Kwinana, Western Australia.
November 7, 2016 Chinese coking coal futures hit the roof The most-traded coking coal for January delivery on the Dalian Commodity Exchange soared 10% to 1,516 yuan ($224) a tonne, a record high.
November 7, 2016 Lucapa soars on record sales from Angola mine The stock jumped after it announced it had fetched $8.3 million for 1,864 carats of rough diamonds from its Lulo project.
November 4, 2016 South32 scoops up Peabody’s Metropolitan coal mine in $200m deal The deal includes a 17% interest in the Port Kembla Coal Terminal, south of Sydney.
November 4, 2016 CAT and Trimble to strengthen mining technology collaboration As part of the deal, CAT is expected to become the primary sales, marketing, distribution and support channel for Trimble’s Connected Mine platform.
November 4, 2016 Rio’s Simandou sale ‘could crush the price of iron ore’ "It would of obvious strategic benefit for China to control a major iron ore deposit and add new supply to discipline the market."
November 3, 2016 The world’s hardest working gold mines Ten gold mines that timed the gold price rally to perfection – Barrick owns four of them.
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