August 17, 2020 Russian oil spill cleanup to stretch into 2021 Nornickel has set aside $2.1-billion after Russia’s ecological watchdog asked it to pay for the damage caused by the spill of about 150 000 barrels of diesel from a storage…
August 17, 2020 Warren Buffett makes unexpected bet on gold Berkshire Hathaway recently invested in Barrick Gold, raising its stake in the gold miner to about $605 million.
August 17, 2020 Coal’s days may be over in the US President Trump has demonstrated that even a fervently pro-coal, anti-renewables administration can’t halt the decline of the former or the rise of the latter.
August 16, 2020 China’s CATL is developing new EV battery with no nickel, cobalt, exec says The new battery type will be different from existing NCA, NCM and LFP batteries and will have no expensive metals like nickel or cobalt.
August 16, 2020 Tianqi Lithium president leaves embattled Chinese firm Vivian Wu left the company as Tianqi looks for a way out of a perilous financial situation.
August 16, 2020 Four people die in accident near coal mine of Russia’s Severstal The workers were demolishing a building near a coal mine owned by Severstal.
August 14, 2020 Gold miners’ Q2 2020 fundamentals Revenues, earnings, operating cash flows, and cash all soared dramatically last quarter.
August 14, 2020 Indigenous groups in Chile’s Atacama push to shut down SQM In 2019 the Atacama Indigenous Council (CPA) filed a lawsuit demanding regulators scrap a $25 million remediation plan.
August 14, 2020 Turkish gold fever spurs dollar oddity unseen in Erdogan era US currency bills in the Grand Bazaar have been trading at the biggest premium relative to the official exchange rate since 2002.
August 14, 2020 Metro Mining to shut mine early as virus chokes sales The Bauxite Hills Mine in Queensland is expected to cease shipping ore earlier than usual in mid-September and restart next April.
Silver price whipsaws again as thin liquidity fuels wild swings Spot silver was up more than 7% to about $76 an ounce by mid-morning in New York on Friday, having earlier tumbled toward $64. February 06, 2026 | 01:23 pm
