February 12, 2016 Potash prices to fall even further — Mosaic It expects to sell the key crop nutrient for $200-230 a tonne in the current quarter, compared to an average price of $254 a tonne in the previous three-month period.
February 11, 2016 Glencore to sell gold and silver to Franco-Nevada in $500 million deal Only a day after announcing the deal, Franco-Nevada increased the size of the financing by 45%, citing “strong demand.”
February 11, 2016 TransCanada posts $2.5bn loss in Q4 on Keystone XL charge The net loss also included a number of other smaller items, partially offset by an increase in revenue to $2.85 billion from $2.62 billion.
February 11, 2016 This is the 122-carat diamond Alrosa just found at its Jubilee pipe The massive rock worth about $1.5 million.
February 11, 2016 Teck Resources logs $536M loss in Q4 on depressed commodities, asset charge The loss includes a Cdn$598 million impairment charge on its Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta.
February 11, 2016 Rio Tinto swings to loss, blames metal prices slump The world’s second biggest mining company has scrapped its dividend policy as a result.
February 10, 2016 Tahoe may go after Goldcorp’s assets in Ontario — report Tahoe Resources' founder and executive chair Kevin McArthur said the operations present "nice synergies".
February 10, 2016 Hope fades for three gold miners trapped underground in South Africa The three workers were trapped on Friday morning, when the lamp room where they were on duty collapsed into an 80-metre hole.
February 10, 2016 EPA says Colorado mine spill dumped 880,000 pounds of metals into river The report didn’t identify the metals but said researchers were looking at cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel and zinc.
February 10, 2016 India hikes import tariffs on gold and silver Move is a fresh attempt to curb costly imports and stop precious metals from being used to hide billions of dollars of undeclared "black money".
CHART: Friday massacre for mining stocks but copper price pulls out of nosedive Historic down day for gold and silver prices caused double digit losses for precious metals stocks but copper miners came off relatively lightly. January 30, 2026 | 06:21 pm
