May 1, 2015 Rio Tinto ready to resume hunt for mining deals — report If the miner buys any assets this year, it would be Rio's first acquisition in about three years.
April 30, 2015 Vale falls victim of the iron ore slump, posts $3.2bn loss Today's results are the lowest earnings Vale has reported in six years and its third straight quarterly loss.
April 29, 2015 Iron ore price rally turns into dead cat bounce Iron ore price falls 4% on Wednesday as oversupply, Chinese steel fears return.
April 29, 2015 Cliffs US sales beat estimates, turns a profit in Q1 But the miner revised down its 2015 U.S. iron ore sales and production volume estimate to 20.5 million tons, from its previous guidance for 22 million tons
April 29, 2015 New highly sensitive method for detecting gold at drill sites Using advanced photonics, Dr Agneszka Zuber and Associate Professor Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem's method can find gold nanoparticules at detection limits a hundred times lower than current methods such as X-ray Diffraction…
April 29, 2015 Life beyond the boom: Aussie FIFO families brace for downturn With new rosters in place and job losses on the horizon, many in WA are asking how this will affect their home lives in coming years.
April 28, 2015 Majority of Barrick’s shareholders rejects compensation plan As much as three quarters of investors voted in favour of a non-binding motion to change the way the gold giant compensates its executives.
April 28, 2015 What’s behind El Salvador’s massive gold reserves sale? Analysts are not sure what to make of El Salvador’s recent move that saw its central bank sell about 80% percent of its gold reserves last month.
April 28, 2015 Barrick begins sale of stake in Chile’s Zaldivar copper mine Chinese companies, private equity firms including Mick Davis’s X2 Resources, and even Teck Resources are rumoured to be among the potential buyers.
April 27, 2015 Iron ore recovery gives miners breathing space Prices for the steel-making material added Monday US$1.28 or 2.17% to US$59.09 a tonne, taking its gain since bottoming on April 2 to 25%.
Gold price surpasses $4,900 as record rally carries on Spot gold rose nearly 2% to set a fresh all-time high of $4,923.63 per ounce. January 22, 2026 | 11:59 am
