Marathon upgrades resources at Valentine

The US Dollar Index is nearing 100 yet again, but has not broken through.

A terrorist attack on a hotel in Mali on Friday that left 14 dead has a Canadian mining connection. (Screenshot from BBC News report posted to Youtube.)

Exports suspended for nearly two months over building of smelter.

Unless demand picks up or more miners cut output, prices for raw materials are set to stay low for years, or worse, continue to drop, the investment bank predicts.

Indian households sit on 20,000 tonnes and the Modi government's two-week old scheme to bring gold into the financial system looks like a spectacular flop.

A miserable $400 million down from a high of $4.6 billion in 2012.

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The biggest drops were in the construction sector in Latin America (-41%) and in the resources industry in Asia (-37%).

The investigation aims to determine whether senior officials tried extorting Freeport’s Indonesian unit in return for letting the company continue to operate in the country.