November 27, 2017

Volkswagen’s talks with cobalt producers end without deal

Meetings last week between major cobalt producers including mining giant Glencore to supply world’s largest automaker Volkswagen ended without a deal.

November 27, 2017

Canada’s Dalradian plans to dig deep for Northern Irish gold

Dalradian acquired mineral rights in 2009 to more than 80,000 hectares of land in Northern Ireland, including the Curraghinalt gold deposit.

November 27, 2017

Investors force Rio Tinto to ditch plans to have Mick Davis as chairman

Decision comes in the wake of a full-scale investor revolt led by the Investor Forum, a London-based body representing some of the world’s biggest money managers.

November 26, 2017

Clothes not coal incinerated by Swedish power plant

The fortunes of a lagging coal industry were not helped by the actions of a Swedish power plant last week.

November 24, 2017

New plant in the UK aims to transform biomass into ‘coal’

This would be the first complex of its type in the country.

November 23, 2017

European investors to fund $53-million bio-coal plant

Baltania OÜ wants to supply clean energy to utility companies in Nordic countries and Central Europe.

November 23, 2017

Australia’s ANZ resigns membership of London Metal Exchange

The LME said in a notice to users that the resignation would be effective at the close of business on Nov. 24.

November 23, 2017

Legal kerfuffle in Spain around uranium mine environmental assessment

Spain's National Audience dismissed a series of allegations presented by Berkeley Energia against a legal action filed by a group of environmentalists who oppose the company's uranium project.

November 23, 2017

Gem Diamonds finds seventh largest rock this year at Lesotho mine

It's a high quality 202-carat, D colour type IIa rock found at Letšeng mine, the world’s highest dollar per carat kimberlite diamond operation.

November 22, 2017

These doomsday preppers are starting to switch from gold to bitcoin

Doomsday preppers in North America bet on bitcoin; cryptocurrency is starting to impinge on gold's appeal.