August 13, 2019

Nautilus Minerals’ plans to mine the seafloor sink deeper

Creditors have voted in favour of liquidating the company.

June 26, 2019

Why Goldman thinks nickel is trading like a biotech start-up — opinion

Nickel is defying both the general macroeconomic concerns weighing on other industrial metals and signs its own internal dynamics are weakening.

June 21, 2019

SolGold shares soar after Ecuador court dismisses call for referendum on mining

The country's Constitutional Court has rejected calls for a referendum, which could have halted the miner's flagship Cascabel and other projects.

June 18, 2019

Avesoro resumes operations at Burkina Faso’s gold mine

Company had to halt mining and processing at Youga last week over disagreements between workers and a proposed open pit mining contractor.

June 18, 2019

Vale halts Onça Puma nickel complex, to pay twice the amount of original fine

Court doubled the fine applied against the company to 200,000 Real ($52K) for each day it kept the nickel complex open, despite a February ruling that ordered the full suspension…

June 17, 2019

First Quantum ships first copper concentrate from Cobre Panama mine

The key milestone for Cobre Panama comes at a time when the market is in need of high concentrate volumes due to recent supply disruptions.

June 13, 2019

SolGold strikes again in Ecuador’s Andean copper belt

Discovery comes on the heels of a government's study showing the miner's Cascabel project will be one of the world’s ten largest copper, silver and gold mines.

June 9, 2019

Congo state miner says it paid $263m in tax advances

Gecamines rejected allegations that there are discrepancies in its financial statements.

June 9, 2019

Scientists produce gold, silver, copper foams

The foams are supposed to give physicists better X-ray sources to employ in experiments at the National Ignition Facility.

June 7, 2019

Nyrstar suspends Port Pirie lead smelter, declares force majeure

It stopped output at Port Pirie on May 28 due to an unplanned outage at the blast furnace.