December 11, 2015 World’s first seafloor miner inks copper sales deal with Chinese customer The new agreement replaces a previous three-year contract that would have seen Nautilus supplying 1.1 million tonnes of unrefined copper ore to Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group.
December 11, 2015 Supply/demand balance in diamonds could be reached by mid-2016 Despite the fact that the diamond industry is heavily concentrated, and still possesses tones congruent with its relatively recently removed history of being a monopoly, end-consumer demand is still what…
December 9, 2015 Freeport follows Anglo’s lead: suspends dividend, cuts spending, eyes assets sales The U.S. miner became the latest mining company to announced drastic measures aimed at preserving cash amid a deepening commodity prices rout.
December 9, 2015 US coal industry on board ‘slow-motion train wreck’— report Analysts from McKinsey and Co. warn the U.S. is currently home to a collection of “zombie mines” that cannot turn a profit, but are too costly to close.
December 9, 2015 Hillary Clinton’s emails reveal pro deep sea miner move after request from son-in-law The 2012 emails from an investor in Florida-based deep sea mining firm Neptune Minerals Inc. were forwarded to Clinton by her son-in-law and hedge fund partner Marc Mezvinsky.
December 8, 2015 Anglo American to cut 85,000 jobs, dividend and assets in sweeping restructuring The job cuts, part of a major overhaul, are far greater than the 53,000 positions the miner said it would cut in July.
December 8, 2015 Rio Tinto axes spending forecast by $1.5 billion Once again the world's second largest mining company has cut its spending forecast for 2016, as iron ore hit new lows.
December 8, 2015 Canadian Arctic readies for world’s largest diamond mine opening The Gahcho Kué mine will take in a number of the hundreds of workers laid off at Snap Lake.
December 7, 2015 Adani wants opposition to its coal mine in Australia to be over by law The company wants an "indisputable and final" go-ahead for Carmichael, considered Australia’s largest thermal coal project ever.
Op-ed: America can’t defend itself with Chinese minerals US is building new critical-mineral processing facilities from Texas to Tennessee, but without new sources of raw material, those plants will sit idle. January 23, 2026 | 12:56 pm
