May 19, 2016 Harvard, IMF economist: Emerging markets must go for gold If all central banks were to hold at least 5% of forex reserves in gold (versus 60%+ in rich economies) it would require the purchase of almost 8,000 tonnes
May 19, 2016 Prospect generation – making mining into a numbers game A concept born from two facts: mineral exploration is extremely capital intensive, and just 1 out of 3,000 mineralized anomalies became a mine.
May 18, 2016 Lulo diamonds sell for A$2.9 million Special diamond recoveries continue at E46 as mining resumes at Mining Block 6 post the wet season
May 18, 2016 Australia’s miners ‘missing in action’ in Colombia Australia’s resource houses are “missing in action” in Latin America’s third largest economic powerhouse – Colombia – and should move post haste to rapidly lift their engagement with the mineral…
May 18, 2016 Australia’s Crusader in financing talks to build new gold mine in Brazil The Juruena mine, in central Brazil, is estimated to hold an initial resource of 178,800 ounces of gold.
May 18, 2016 Thailand to shut only active gold mine by end of May — report Chatree remains in operations despite and order by the country's military regime last week to halt all gold mining and exploration activities.
May 17, 2016 Copper purification system to cut shipping costs South Australian company OZ Minerals has designed a refining process that allows it to increase the quality of its copper concentrate and exponentially reduce export costs.
May 17, 2016 Aussie firms back push to drive Argentina to world No 2 lithium supplier There are fresh opportunitis to explore for new lithium resources in the rich Latin American footprint, says Latin Resources Managing Director, Chris Gale.
May 16, 2016 Australia’s geoscientist employment slump enters its third year Employment prospects for Australia’s professional geoscientists deteriorated even further in the opening quarter of 2016, driven down by mining’s negativity and dashing hopes for an improvement in the geoscientist employment…
May 16, 2016 Lucapa to invest $7 million upgrading Lulo diamond mine in Angola The mine hosts type-2a diamonds which account for less than 1% of global supply.
New York copper price surges again, Shanghai sets record Copper jumped by more than 5% to the highest level since the short squeeze in July. December 26, 2025 | 12:18 pm
