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September precious metal price meltdown

Fresh selling sees gold price end September down 6% vs historical average gain of 3%, silver tanks 13%, platinum drops 9% and palladium collapses 15% over the course of the month.

Frik Els | September 30, 2014 | 9:41 pm

Rio Tinto, Glencore could save $500m by joining coal businesses

It would also create a a 15-kilometre long ‘‘super pit’’ from the union of Rio’s Mount Thorley Warkworth and Glencore’s Bulga open-pit mines.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2014 | 3:15 pm

Newmont ships first copper from Indonesia in eight months

30,000 tonnes of copper concentrate were sent out Monday.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2014 | 1:16 pm

London Metal Exchange raises fees by a third

This is the first fee hike since Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. acquired LME for $2.2 billion in 2012.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2014 | 11:00 am

Imperial’s cleanup plan underway for Mount Polley mine dam breach, but questions remain

With 24 million cubic metres of water and tailings flushed downstream of the Mount Polley gold and copper mine, the company’s biggest challenge now is to keep the remaining tailings and water contained.

Vancouver Sun | September 28, 2014 | 9:18 pm

Rio Tinto-Mongolia deal on Oyu Tolgoi expansion ‘days away’

We've heard this before.

Frik Els | September 26, 2014 | 6:15 pm

INFOGRAPHIC: A year’s extraction of metal shown next to landmarks and cities

For thousands of years of development as a species, humans never really needed to understand the real meaning behind big, unreachable numbers such as billions or trillions.

Visual Capitalist | September 25, 2014 | 9:31 pm

BHP freezes executive pay

CEO Andrew Mackenzie's pay package is already only half that of his predecessor.

Frik Els | September 25, 2014 | 5:14 pm

Chile sees $105bn mining investment in next decade

The massive figure includes a recently announced $23.5 billion for state-owned copper miner Codelco to revamp century-old mines that are running out of profitable ore.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 25, 2014 | 4:57 pm

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