November 14, 2014 BHP abandons Venus nickel project in Australia The news comes barely a day after the miner announced it was scrapping the sale of its Nickel West division.
November 14, 2014 Glencore shutting Australian coal mines over Christmas The move will cut the miner's output by 5 million tonnes — 2.5% of Australia's forecast 2014 thermal coal exports — and force about 8,000 workers to take a leave.
November 13, 2014 Kyrgyz Republic seizes Stans Energy rare earth project Kyrgyz government moves to revoke Stans Energy's licence for rare earth mine and plant that was the main global source of heavy REEs during the Soviet era.
November 13, 2014 Canadian miners performance down 15% in Q3 on falling metal prices Decline was in line with S&P/TSX Composite index, which also plummeted 15% during the quarter.
November 13, 2014 BHP, Rio Tinto call for global deal to push clean coal Their plea comes amid fears a climate change deal reached Wednesday between the U.S. and China could hurt coal miners in Australia.
November 13, 2014 India back to being world’s top gold consumer Global demand, however, fell to its lowest in nearly five years as Chinese buying slid by a third.
November 13, 2014 Barrick names new executive director for Pascua-Lama The news come only a day after the project executive director in Chile, Eduardo Flores, told local media that Barrick was hopeful it could find a way forward with the…
November 12, 2014 Barrick to push ahead with Pascua Lama, ‘no margin for error’ Finishing the project would take time and around $4 billion more of what Barrick has already invested.
November 12, 2014 Five banks fined over $3bn in foreign exchange probe These are the first cases to come out of a global probe into allegations of widespread rate-rigging in foreign exchange markets.
November 12, 2014 Canada injects $300m in Chile’s copper giant Codelco The world’s biggest copper producer will, in turn, procure goods and services from Canadian companies.
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