Pakistan in talks with Tethyan Copper to resolve $5.8bn dispute

Four companies are negotiating - Sibanye-Stillwater , Harmony Gold, AngloGold Ashanti and a smaller producer, Village Main Reef- under the auspices of the Minerals Council South Africa industry group.

The Canadian streaming firm has bought all of Stillwater's gold production for the life of the mine and, initially, also 4.5% of its total palladium output.

Guidance reconfirmed.

DRC's Kibali is moving from underground mining by contractors to owner-mining, as has already happened at the company’s Loulo mines in Mali.

Production in the second-quarter of the year jumped 6.1% to 163,200 tonnes, as higher output at its Centinela and Antucoya mines mitigated declines at Los Pelambres and Zaldívar.

Companies can now perform non-systematic drilling during the early exploration phase of their mining concessions and without requiring an environmental license.

Study released Tuesday by the Fraser Institute, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec are the three main provinces where exploration permit processes have grown longer and less transparent over the past 10 years.

Output will continue to shrink as miners chase ever-deeper ore bodies while struggling to keep costs down.

It’s getting ugly out there. Commodities are getting shaken up as investors fret about the fall-out from the global trade war.