May 18, 2012 China’s rare earth quotas are a joke. 74% of oxides never left port this year Chinese authorities added 10,680 tonnes to the country's export allowance this week but it is something of a meaningless exercise because during the first quarter China only exported 26.3% of…
May 18, 2012 Graff Diamonds IPO should catapult the diamond king up the billionaires list Laurence Graff, the undisputed king of uber-expensive diamonds, will earn a tidy $290 million windfall when he restructures his Mayfair-based company and will vastly boost his paper wealth when Graff…
May 18, 2012 Rare earthquake: May last year Molycorp investors were $5.5 billion richer The Colorado company is destined to become the number one producer outside China, but the rapidly changing economics of the industry has seen its stock decline 20% this week and…
May 18, 2012 Planetary Resources doesn’t want more people onboard its asteroids-mining ship Less than a month after officially launching its asteroid-mining plans, Google’s billionaire co-founders and filmmaker James Cameron’s owned company Planetary Resources, has already decided not to accept any more job…
May 18, 2012 China is developing a grid better for coal than renewables: report China won’t meet its carbon and energy intensity targets unless dramatic changes to its electricity grid are applied, says a study by U.S.-based Energy Transition Research Institute.
May 18, 2012 Peru’s illegal mining exports problem worse than drug trafficking: report Peru’s illegal mining exports reached $1.8 billion in 2011, exceeding even drug trafficking profits, which accounted for $1.2 billion, said local consultancy firm Macroconsult.
May 18, 2012 One step closer to a better US permitting process Yesterday, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 4402, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012. The bill, offered by Rep. Amodei (R-Nev.), received strong support…
May 18, 2012 TSX heads higher, commodities mixed The Toronto stock market was higher Friday as traders picked up stocks that have sold off this month on worries about Greece leaving the eurozone and generally slowing economic conditions.
May 18, 2012 Silvercorp sets records in China as it emerges from short and distort saga Silvercorp Metals along with the rest of the silver sector jumped on Thursday as the price of the precious metal recovered from […]
May 17, 2012 Gold: A dead cat bouncing or last chance to buy before Grexit and QE in the EU send prices rocketing? If the EU joins the US in flooding the market with cheap money it will be a massive boon for gold. It is worth remembering that before the Fed kicked…
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
