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US to allow mining on land removed from monuments

The US Bureau of Land Management has announced plans to allow increased mining on land that once belonged to two national monuments Donald Trump shrank.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 16, 2018 | 3:45 am

Japan utilities, Glencore set annual coal contract at $110/T

Japanese utilities and global mining giant Glencore have settled an…

Reuters | August 14, 2018 | 10:36 am

Seven die in Pakistan mine blast, six missing

A mine explosion in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta killed…

Reuters | August 13, 2018 | 12:33 pm

Soviet collapse echoes in China’s Belt and Road

Like the Soviet Union in the 1970s, China is coming…

Bloomberg Opinion | August 13, 2018 | 12:03 pm

IAEA launches easy to use digital map of world’s uranium distribution

This edition classifies information by types of deposits and is…

International Atomic Energy Agency | August 13, 2018 | 9:33 am

Miners begin to find a ‘level of stability’

For the companies that are doing well, it is a good time to grow within their markets.

Michael Allan McCrae | February 4, 2015 | 9:59 pm

Russia stashes 55 tonnes of gold in Switzerland

Customs data shows the world's second largest gold miner Russia exported 58 tonnes to be refined in Switzerland last year, but got less than 3 tonnes back.

Frik Els | February 4, 2015 | 7:40 pm

Mongolian verdict sends chill through mining community

Banned from travel since 2012, three SouthGobi workers, a coal firm owned Vancouver's Turquoise Hill, are now going to jail for 5-6 years for tax evasion.

Frik Els | February 4, 2015 | 4:12 pm

State of global economy among the Canadian mining industry’s top issues

The mining industry employed more than 380,000 people in 2013, accounting for one in every 47 jobs in Canada.

Mining Association of Canada | February 4, 2015 | 4:06 pm

Lots of new fees for hardrock miners in BLM budget

"It will definitely put a lot of marginal producers out of business."

Michael Allan McCrae | February 3, 2015 | 9:04 pm

Roubini gives a talking to gold bugs, other ‘pseuds and hacks’

Dr Doom explains why the predictions of "Austrian economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics" have been so "spectacularly wrong".

Frik Els | February 3, 2015 | 8:04 pm

Gold bears too complacent about Grexit

Gold price pullback since vote hides real possibility of Greek debt default, euro exit and displays overconfidence in ECB's ability to limit contagion says report.

Frik Els | February 2, 2015 | 11:42 pm