July 20, 2013 Buyers line up for Glencore Xstrata’s massive Peru copper mine Bids for the three Las Bambas open pits which will also produce significant quantities of gold, silver and molybdenum as by-product are streaming in.
July 19, 2013 The Shanghai gold surprise The physical gold market continues to develop in the most wonderfully counterintuitive way.
July 19, 2013 Huge $16 billion gold deposit discovered in China It also holds 187 million tonnes of iron and 1.5 million tonnes of zinc.
July 19, 2013 Krugman on why China is going down: no more workers They've got away with it for so long.
July 18, 2013 Sirius Minerals delays potash mining plans in English national park The miner had expected to begin production in late 2016, with initial output of 5 million tonnes per year.
July 17, 2013 The results are (almost) in for rare earth competitors: Alex Knox This is a good time to keep your eyes open and sharpen your pencil to crunch some numbers.
July 17, 2013 China bulls drag iron ore price past $130 China new leadership hints it would do more to support the economy and industry.
July 17, 2013 BHP Billiton follows suit: Record iron ore production Also posts record performance in coal and copper.
July 15, 2013 Illegal miner exodus: thousands of Chinese leave Ghana Almost 5,000 Chinese have left the country since the government crackdown on illegal miners began.
Zijin to buy Canada’s Allied Gold for $4B in cash A takeover premium, African assets and soaring gold prices highlight how miners are chasing scale as consolidation accelerates. January 26, 2026 | 03:43 am
