After copper chaos, LME mulls rules to keep from running out of metal

GFG is building up a South Australian franchise to its global steel and energy business.

Rebeico sits on Mexico’s famed Sierra Madre Gold belt, credited with production of over 80 million ounces of gold and over 4.5 billion ounces of silver.

More than 8,000 tonnes of ore have already been extracted since early April.

Industrial metal markets are taking a breather as they await tangible evidence that China's latest stimulus package is feeding through to a flagging manufacturing sector.

A flood of stock promotion newsletters began recommending Northern Dynasty, one describing it as "Trump’s Gold."

While the adjusted per-share earnings beat the average analyst estimate, revenue came in lower than expected and copper production fell 5.8% from a year earlier.

Recent drill results include 3.22 g/t platinum, 2.08 g/t palladium, 0.23 g/t gold, 0.57% copper and 0.19% nickel over 41.2 m.

Five firms, including BHP, were removed from the Prompt Payment Code, an initiative to speed up settlement of invoices owed to suppliers.

According to the Responsible Mining Foundation, most of the companies assessed show little or no evidence of efforts to strengthen the gender balance of their leadership and governance teams.