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‘Now is a good time to deploy capital’ – private equity group secures $450 million

No money for iron ore.

Michael Allan McCrae | February 2, 2015 | 4:18 pm

Codelco to slash costs by $1B on back of copper price slump

Codelco, the world's largest copper company, is planning to reduce costs by $1 billion in 2015, as the copper price remains mired in lows not seen since recessionary 2009.

MINING.com Editor | February 1, 2015 | 8:34 pm

Roundup takeaway 1: outsmart tough odds

It’s a common stat in the sector: only 1 in 1,000 discoveries becomes a mine. But David Harquail, president and CEO of Franco-Nevada, takes that sobering fact one step farther.

Gwen Preston - Resource Maven | January 31, 2015 | 1:01 pm

Scotiabank: Copper ‘likely oversold’

Stimulus in China and production cuts should support the price.

Frik Els | January 30, 2015 | 11:21 pm

‘Failure resides in the design’: Mount Polley Review Panel

"If the downstream slope had been flattened, failure would have been avoided. "

Michael Allan McCrae | January 30, 2015 | 8:32 pm

Report on Mount Polley tailing dams failure is being live steamed now

Report is releasd.

Michael Allan McCrae | January 30, 2015 | 5:38 pm

BHP axing up to 300 Olympic Dam jobs

The decision caps off a dreadful month for South Australia’s mining sector.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 30, 2015 | 11:23 am

Here is how metal-eating bacteria may make asteroid mining profitable

The technique, known as biomining, is already being tested here on Earth as a sustainable treatment of ores and mine waste.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 29, 2015 | 5:31 pm

Michael Fowler says forget the majors, buy the midtiers

According to Michael Fowler, senior mining analyst with Loewen, Ondaatje & McCutcheon, the major gold producers have gorged on debt and sold off their seed corn.

The Gold Report | January 29, 2015 | 4:11 pm

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