December 22, 2016 Tiny Australian junior gets permit for Greenland’s first large new mine Ironbark Zinc Limited (ASX:IBG) is developing one of the world's largest lead-zinc deposits.
December 21, 2016 Gold higher on dollar retreat A retreat in the US dollar from the previous session's 14-year peak prompted some buyers to hunt bargains.
December 21, 2016 Eight dead, 35 injured in Congo mining hub amid anti-Govt protests Congolese security forces accused of shooting civilians in the southern city of Lubumbashi.
December 21, 2016 Idled Canadian iron ore mine charged with $30K fine over pollution Mining company will be added to the country’s Environmental Offenders Registry.
December 21, 2016 Gold-backed digital payment platform to store physical gold at Canadian Mint Users of Goldmoney’s blockchain technology will be able to purchase reserved physical gold in the Mint’s Ottawa vault, in increments as small as 35 cents.
December 21, 2016 These were the top Canadian mining topics of 2016 Commodity price recovery; King Coal on the way out; mining tech on the way in — among the most covered issues this year.
December 20, 2016 Newly found ‘ghost octopods’ at risk from deep-sea mining This as the creature lays its eggs on the dead stalks of sponges, attached to rocky crusts, which are rich in metals like manganese.
December 20, 2016 Kinder Morgan expected to spend up to $300M on Trans Mountain expansion That is how much the company will have to spend just getting the expansion project shovel-ready, according to Conference Board of Canada estimates.
How a reclusive ex-Glencore trader became Indonesia’s nickel king Arif Kurniawan has gone from earning paychecks at Glencore to controlling approximately a third of his country’s domestic trade in nickel ore. December 28, 2025 | 03:25 pm
