September 22, 2014 Thousands of workers begin strike at world’s biggest copper mine Close to 2,800 miners at Chile's Escondida mine, jointly owned by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, did not show up for work Monday morning, iddling a 1.2 million tonnes a…
September 22, 2014 Royal Mint launches online dealing account … in gold The Royal Mint is encouraging the public to become gold investors with the launch of an online bullion trading service.
September 21, 2014 Sudbury digging deep for underground mining research The Centre for mining Excellence in Sudbury is launching a request for proposals that would be eligible for its $46 million Ultra Deep Mining Network, Northern Ontario Business reported earlier…
September 18, 2014 What will Ivan buy next? Take 2 "All that's required is to hand the world’s best mining assets to the world’s best management."
September 18, 2014 Diamond market grows to record $79 billion But new report by De Beers cautions that declining production could see the industry lose ground to other categories.
September 17, 2014 Inside potash potentate’s $300m yacht Andrey Melnichenko is taking Uralkali and Potashcorp head on by building two $5bn potash mines, but spent the summer cruising from Ketchikan to Seattle.
September 16, 2014 Uralkali: No plans to bring back Russia-Belarus potash pact No going back to clubby system of tightly controlled global supply and set prices that served North American and European producers so well in the past.
September 16, 2014 INFOGRAPHIC: Visualizing the changing landscape in nuclear power In this visualization, every nuclear reactor in the world is shown and broken down by country and life of plant. This includes construction, commercial power generation, and decommissioning of the…
September 12, 2014 All quiet on the gold front: time to buy — Westhaven Westhaven hunts for bonanza grade gold on its Shovelnose gold property.
CHART: Friday massacre for mining stocks but copper price pulls out of nosedive Historic down day for gold and silver prices caused double digit losses for precious metals stocks but copper miners came off relatively lightly. January 30, 2026 | 06:21 pm