April 28, 2022

Eramet raises profit target as metal prices outweigh costs

The company reported first-quarter sales of 1.2 billion euros, up nearly 80% from a year earlier.

April 28, 2022

New annealing method maintains the structure of gold, silver in alloys

The development will prove useful in the manufacture of contact lenses, holographic optical elements and other optical components.

April 28, 2022

Glencore hails trading unit outlook, cuts copper guidance

It said earnings from its marketing unit will “comfortably” top the highest end of its guidance range of $2.2 billion to $3.2 billion.

April 27, 2022

Charting the gold-to-silver ratio over 200 years

This graphic charts 200 years of the gold-to-silver ratio, plotting the pivotal historical events that have shaped its peaks and valleys.

April 27, 2022

LME CEO backtracks on exit after nickel chaos

Matthew Chamberlain will stay in his role after all instead of leaving to run a crypto startup, as the bourse deals with the ongoing fallout from March’s nickel crisis.

April 27, 2022

The world’s first ETP betting on both bitcoin and gold is here

The first ever exchange-traded product combining Bitcoin and gold has launched in Europe.

April 27, 2022

Iron man Elon Musk places his Tesla battery bets

Nearly half of the vehicles Tesla produced in Q1 were equipped with LFP batteries - a cheaper rival to the nickel-and-cobalt-based cells that dominate in the West.

April 27, 2022

Column: Global miners rank ESG as their top concern. Really?

Not one of the biggest listed Western mining companies has an executive with the title of chief ESG officer, writes Clyde Russell.

April 27, 2022

Column: Automakers go back to the future to secure battery metals

Henry Ford was right all along, it turns out.

April 27, 2022

Galantas Gold to kick off operations at Irish mine in June

The past producing Omagh mine in Northern Ireland is expected to yield between 4,500 to 5,500 ounces of gold for the balance of the year.