October 27, 2015 Russia and China increase gold holdings while central banks continue their expansionary monetary policy Even though the price of gold failed to make a decisive break above the 200 day Moving average, the price looks set to continue its upward trajectory.
October 26, 2015 Chinese scrap at 10-year low pressures iron ore price Chinese scrap – typically around 90% Fe – has fallen to below 62% iron ore at its 2011 peak and below domestic pig iron prices.
October 26, 2015 Weak metal prices to hit miners through 2016 — Moody’s The situation, says the ratings agency, won’t change over the next 12 to 18 months, and metal prices may fall even further.
October 26, 2015 More holidays, less coal: Chinese media’s five-year plan wish lists Top Communist Party officials are gathering in Beijing this week to chart China’s economic development for the latter half of this decade – and already, the country’s state-run media are…
October 26, 2015 US aluminum producers say Chinese firm evading import duties The case, filed with the U.S. Commerce Department late last week, is considered the first formal move to curb China's aluminum exports.
October 26, 2015 Rick Rule: I am too wise to call a bottom in mining Rick has seen too many cycles to answer a question like that.
October 25, 2015 Second Chinese bank joins group setting gold price China Construction Bank Corp. will become the second Chinese bank to join the group of lenders setting the benchmark used to price billions of dollars' worth of daily gold trades,…
October 23, 2015 MMG’s gigantic Las Bambas mine in Peru to open next year despite protests The copper mine, one of the world's biggest, is on track to begin production in the first quarter of 2016, despite weak prices and relentless protests against the project.
October 21, 2015 Diamond Services sets up synthetic screening service in Shanghai following successful installation of mini Raman Spectrometer in Surat Diamond Services has announced that it will begin offering synthetic diamond screening services directly to the Chinese diamond trade through the facilities in Shanghai of NGGC, the state-owned gem laboratory…
October 21, 2015 Canada’s Ivanhoe to start copper production at new DRC mine in 2018 The Vancouver-based miner estimates that Kamoa, discovered in 2007, holds the equivalent of at least 45 million tonnes of pure copper.
Super Copper’s Cordillera project approved by Chile’s National Mining Authority The concessions cover approximately 6,858 hectares in the Atacama copper belt. December 24, 2025 | 11:24 am
