July 14, 2015 Congo’s Gecamines sells copper assets to Chinese for $52 million The deal increases Chinese miners presence in Congo, which is Africa’s top copper producer and the world’s largest producer of cobalt.
July 14, 2015 Iran, World powers reach ‘historic’ nuclear deal The agreement ends decades of economic sanctions against Iran, and includes reductions in centrifuges, international inspections.
July 12, 2015 China and Russia’s evolving relationship The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) concluded a two-day meeting July 10 in Ufa, Russia, just two days after the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit in the…
July 10, 2015 The fate of global rare earth miners rests on a China smuggling crackdown The fate of debt-ridden U.S. rare earth miner Molycorp rests on China's efforts to crack down on networks that smuggled as much as 40,000 tonnes of the vital technology metals…
July 9, 2015 Iron ore prices: the worst is yet to come Despite the rosy outlook from Australia’s top iron ore producers, they are all facing staggering demand from their biggest customer — China.
July 8, 2015 Why chaos on markets isn’t moving the gold price Safe haven no more? Or how to "portray what is evidently a financial and economic crisis as nothing to be concerned about"?
July 8, 2015 Iron ore nose-dives, hits fresh lows of $44.6 per tonne Chinese import price for 62% iron content fines at the port of Qinqdao lost $5.01 or 10.01% of its value to $44.59 a tonne, the largest percentage drop on record.
July 7, 2015 China panic crushes mining stocks Billions wiped from mining sector as gold, silver prices fall and copper, iron ore prices plummet to 2009 levels amid Chinese stock market collapse.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
