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 7, 2015 Glencore axes jobs, coal output at Australia’s mine as price collapses The company will start cutting nearly 80% of its workforce at its Collinsville coal mine in March next year, as it dials back mining at the site.
December 6, 2015 Argentina: End of currency controls will be good for mining President-elect Mauricio Macri will lift the clamp-down on dollar purchases by out-going president Cristina Fernandez, as early as December 14.
December 4, 2015 Anglo American set to announce dividend cut next week One of the miner’s worst kept secret may be revealed as soon as Tuesday.
December 4, 2015 Down again: iron ore sinks below $40 a tonne It hit $39.40 a tonne, the lowest price ever recorded by price assessor The Steel Index (TSI), which began compiling data in 2008.
December 4, 2015 Giant mine pit ‘swallowing’ 400-year-old Peruvian town The Peruvian city of Cerro de Pasco, perched high up in the Andes, is about to sink — literally and metaphorically — into the deeps of a half-century-old, open-pit zinc…
December 2, 2015 The iron ore price is in free-fall Following a heavy selloff in November, iron ore is down another 7% just this week with no support in sight.
December 2, 2015 World’s two biggest miners walking away from coal, but they are not telling BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have significantly cut their investments in coal, while repositioning behind the scenes.
December 2, 2015 The changing of an era in Argentina Argentina last week voted in a new pro-business President, Mauricio Macri.
December 1, 2015 Brazil mine spill not hazardous to human health Concentrations of metals in Rio Doce river after catastrophic dam burst "do not significantly differ" from tests by Brazilian Geological Service in 2010.
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