March 4, 2013 The pencil and engineering design for mining Beware the routine application of craft in challenging mining situations.
March 4, 2013 The biggest bear of all? Iron ore price heading for $50-something Shanghai analyst also sees creditors taking over projects of highly-leveraged producers.
March 4, 2013 Western Australian mines boost country’s gold production Output for the December quarter was 2.4 million ounces.
March 3, 2013 Miners struggle ‘down to the wire’ for cash: report Big and small companies are affected by high costs, low prices and wary investors.
March 2, 2013 Australian mine workers fired after video stunt Barminco slaps crew members with life-ban from all of its projects.
March 1, 2013 Rio to sell majority stake in Canada’s largest iron ore producer Operation is estimated to fetch about $1.7 billion.
February 28, 2013 Rio appoints former BHP executive as new finance director Christopher Lynch takes over longstanding finance director Guy Elliott.
February 28, 2013 Brazil’s Vale reports first loss in a decade, takes $5.7bn write-down It became the latest large miner to write down assets in the face of falling commodity prices.
February 27, 2013 Iron ore billionaire floats plans to rebuild the Titanic Australian mining tycoon Clive Palmer expects Titanic II to be ready for its inaugural voyage by 2016.
CHART: Friday massacre for mining stocks but copper price pulls out of nosedive Historic down day for gold and silver prices caused double digit losses for precious metals stocks but copper miners came off relatively lightly. January 30, 2026 | 06:21 pm
