Platinum, palladium prices slide despite stalled strike deal

Deal will also see the two firms looking at jointly developing the nearby Pascua-Lama gold, silver and copper project and evaluating additional investment opportunities in the area.

Tungsten, tin, tantalum and gold are now also being illegally extracted and traded at sites under the control of armed groups in countries including Myanmar and Colombia.

In case you haven’t already noticed, inflation has been steadily creeping up since July. In February, the most recent month of available data, consumer prices advanced at their fastest pace in five years, hitting 2.7 percent year-over-year.

Veladero could fetch more than $1 billion despite operational setbacks.

A UK listed junior exploration company is hoping to switch Chad’s historic focus from black gold to the more traditional metallic variety with ‘potentially nation-building’ projects.

Experts expect the country, which accounts for more 30% of the world's copper supply, to produce 5.4 million tonnes of the metal in 2017, slightly down from the 5.5mnt it yielded last year.

Together these giant orebodies contain reserves worth $796 billion at today's gold price.

Newmont Mining Corporation has appointed experienced miner Alex Bates to lead the company’s business in Australia.

The new law, which will come into force in 2021, requires importers to ensure their business do not contribute to armed conflicts.