October 9, 2011 South Africa’s gold miners await technology breakthrough to save them Fin24 reports South Africa's gold mining industry is under such cost pressure, owing to gold reserves that are too deep to be mined profitably, that within a decade or two…
October 9, 2011 Australia’s Atlas moves to monthly iron ore pricing Pilbara iron ore exporter Atlas Iron will switch to monthly pricing when several of its long-term supply contracts reach completion in the next nine months. Iron ore contracts have been…
October 9, 2011 More fuel on Australia’s carbon tax fire The Sydney Morning Herald reports Australia's Gillard government has opened the week of the crucial vote on carbon tax by revealing that big fuel users such as airlines want to…
October 9, 2011 Qataris are eyeing Greek gold reserves Qatar is joining the field of gold mining in this country after a recent agreement by the Qatar Investment Authority to fund the Hellenic Gold investment in Halkidiki, northern Greece.
October 9, 2011 Mongolia re-opens bidding for world’s biggest coking coal deposit The Wall Street Journal reports Mongolia is relaunching talks with international miners on developing the western block of Tavan Tolgoi in the South Gobi desert, the world’s largest deposit of…
October 9, 2011 Former Chinese coal boss gets life in jail for graft Reuters reports a former senior executive at China's No. 3 state-owned coal producer has been sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes, state media Xinhua said on Sunday.
October 9, 2011 Saudi may set up commodities bourse sans crude Saudi Arabia could become the second Gulf country to have an official commodities bourse but oil will not be traded in the new market to avoid any speculation, a Saudi…
October 9, 2011 Govt to pull up Coal India for missing production targets CIL has blamed its failure to keep to production targets in Q1 this fiscal on rains and delays in securing green clearances, but the Coal Ministry is in no mood…
October 9, 2011 Pyrrhic victory for Mugabe as Rio Tinto gives up control of tiny diamond mine, but likely drops $200 million expansion News reports on Saturday say Rio Tinto's Zimbabwe subsidiary Murowa Diamonds has ceded 51% of its equity to comply with a new law that requires Zimbabweans to own the majority…
October 9, 2011 Miners, Arizona’s Petrified Forest Park square off over potash Tucson Sentinel reports the Painted Desert of northern Arizona holds hundreds of million years of history, from fossils of dinosaur ancestors to ancient Native American dwellings, but Petrified Forest National…
Copper price racks up longest rally since 2017 with bulls at the helm Futures have rallied by more than 40% this year, setting up the biggest annual advance since 2009. December 30, 2025 | 09:12 am
