February 27, 2019 Rio Tinto investors partying like it’s 2014 Miner will pay a special dividend worth $4 billion, or $2.43 cent a share, as it recorded its highest annual underlying earnings in the last five years.
February 27, 2019 Rio Tinto may have found its next major copper mine in Western Australia The world's second largest miner has confirmed an "exciting" copper find at its Winu project, in the Paterson Range in the East Pilbara.
February 26, 2019 Brazil’s deadly dam collapse pushes miners to set global rules for tailings The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), a London-based industry group representing 27 companies, is setting an independent panel of experts to develope a global standard for tailings facilities…
February 26, 2019 Barrick-Newmont merger would leave up to $7B of assets up for grabs The portfolio would include their Kalgoorlie super pit 50/50 joint-venture in Western Australia, as well as other regional assets such as Porgera, Tanami and Boddington mines.
February 26, 2019 Fresnillo misses 2018 output targets, warns of challenging year ahead The world's largest primary silver producer and Mexico's No.2 gold miner warned of possible lower prices, higher inflation and worsening foreign exchange rates in 2019.
February 25, 2019 Freeport investing to mitigate risk from tailings dams -CEO Freeport is "comfortable" with engineering designs in place at existing dams.
February 25, 2019 Titan Minerals and Core Gold merge and create Latin America-focused company The miners signed a binding arrangement pursuant to which Titan will acquire all of the issued and outstanding Core Gold common shares by way of a share exchange.
February 25, 2019 It’s happening — Barrick makes hostile $17.8 billion bid for Newmont If successful, the move will create the world’s largest gold company with a value of around $42 billion at current market prices.
February 24, 2019 Citigroup says Venezuela deal covered $1.6 billion in gold Citigroup Inc. said it entered into a financing deal with Venezuela’s central bank in 2015 essentially using $1.6 billion of gold held at the Bank of England as collateral.
February 24, 2019 Brazilian iron ore supply disruptions to be expected – Report Wood Mackenzie says close to 8 million tonnes of seaborne supply from Brazil is at risk in 2019.
Lupaka Gold may seize Peru state assets over unpaid $67M arbitration award Lupaka's chairman Gordon Ellis said it has identified Peru’s national petroleum company Petroperu as potential target. January 19, 2026 | 09:59 am
