February 10, 2015

Just when you thought rare earth prices couldn’t fall any further

Customs data show export volumes from China, producer of more than 80% of the world's rare earths, are soaring even as average prices fall by 48%.

February 10, 2015

Hedge against short-term cycles with lithium: Daniela Desormeaux

In this interview with The Mining Report, Desormeaux notes that lithium is less dependent on short-term economic cycles than commodities like oil and copper, and says demand for lithium will…

February 9, 2015

Mining tycoon executed in China

Total of five executed.

February 9, 2015

China just crossed a landmark threshold

Many are already likening the new Silk Road undertaking to the Marshall Plan

February 6, 2015

Iron ore permabear Xie now expects price in $30s

Prices "need to decline to a level that's so painful higher-cost Chinese mines will be forced to give up".

February 6, 2015

‘Inexorable decline’: Iron ore price hits new low

Shanghai trader: "This Chinese New Year procurement period is very different from past years."

February 4, 2015

CHARTS: Gold price – inflation you win, deflation they lose

Gold's longest bull run took place against a backdrop of generally low – and at times negative – inflation.

February 3, 2015

Roubini gives a talking to gold bugs, other ‘pseuds and hacks’

Dr Doom explains why the predictions of "Austrian economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics" have been so "spectacularly wrong".

February 3, 2015

Yukon Zinc in legal tussle with contractor

Embarrassment and financial harm.

February 1, 2015

India reclaims top spot as No. 1 gold consumer

India is back to being the number one consumer of gold, knocking China off the top of the podium as the country that consumed the most bullion in the form…